Forever a soldier : unforgettable stories of wartime service / [edited] by Tom Wiener - xiv, 330 pages : illustrations

"Library of Congress Veterans History Project." Includes index.

Present at the beginning / Raymond Brittain First into Europe / Albert Hassenzahl The modern near-ace / Robert Powell The soldier of 10,000 rounds / John Sudyk Addressing spirituality / Raffi Bahadarian The spirit if not the letter / Hillie John Franz The second time around / Kenneth Ray Rodgers Everybody's bud / Asa Charles Ball Joining the brotherhood / Richard DeLeon The illusion of brotherhood / Robert Dunning The self-contained soldier / Philip Randazzo The careful soldier / Charles Remsburg Into action with the boys / Ruth Deloris Buckley The reluctant physician / Dodson Curry Holding back nothing / Eugene Curtin The little sister / Julia Grabner Haskell The straight-arrow nurse / Frances Liberty Healing hands / Wendy Wamsley Taines The forgiving nurse / Carolyn Hisako Tanaka The unsung pioneer / Darlene Iskra The grateful pioneer / Augustus Prince Too proud to bow / Bertran Wallace Eager for a fight / Norman Ikari Not playing it safe / Yeiichi Kelly Kuwayama Cool under fire / Harold Lippard The ultimate survivor / Giles McCoy Doing something honorable / Rhonda Cornum The man of faith / Roger Dean Ingvalson The man of confidence / Johann Kasten IV The inevitable warrior / John McCain The stubborn Spaniard / Jośe Mares The last prisoner / Harold Riley The soldier who wouldn't surrender / John Stensby The lucky POW / Milton Stern The liberator / James Dorris Confidant to the Nazis / John Dolibois A patriot for his time / Denton Winslow Crocker, Jr.

Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.

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United States--Armed Forces--Biography
Veterans--United States--Biography

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