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Description:This a 1968 story. A year that began as all before, still full of the glue that held us together, without irony people expected and stood for - -truth, justice, and the American way. Due to all the atrocities and stupidity of the Vietnam War, by the end of 1968, we did not know what we stood for and still don’t. This is a story about 4000 hapless ordinary GIs on the Korean DMZ who, due to their seamlessly honorable venture, never stopped believing it. They faced an enemy 200 times their size and kept the world from going nuclear if the line had not held. It did hold, the enemy would back down and this heroic episode catapulted South Korea from mud and sticks to a 1st World Power in less than two generations. However, any DMZ Vet will tell you, no one has a clue that there was ever a ground war in Korea 66-69 despite nearly 50 GIs KIA, three times the total killed in Panama, Desert Storm and Grenada combined. How are so many details so clear after 50 years? Spend enough time north of anti-infiltration fence in '68 and you never really leave. Accounts of what happened out there just get more intense when compared to the rest of your life. Though the author met GIs who were later killed or wounded, they were fortunately only abstractions to him. None were close enough to cause anything like ‘survivor’s remorse’, a root cause of PTSD suffered by so many DMZ war veterans. This is further complicated by these 'officially ordinary’ GIs never having been thanked or acknowledged for not letting the world go nuclear, so our children could be born. The first reason for the book is attaining the recognition due the 4,000 by making the DMZ War as well known in American history as any other 20th Century conflict. The second reason is to tell everyone we are far better than we are told. Better, once you believe that enough, you cannot get back to where you started - feeling bad about being an American. Year after year, Vietnam is the only story of the Boomer generation - - failure, atrocity, dishonor, moral collapse. Unremembered Victory is the second story to Nam, honor, valor, audacity, trust. For too many, the easy way to ease the pain of not feeling good about being an American is to feel superior to others. Letting hatred define you long enough makes you at risk of not even being there at all, only an embodiment of the hatred. The amazing performance of the 4000, by making you feel good again about being an American, eliminates the need to feel superior. It replaces it with the boundless amazement at how far we have all gotten by believing in each other. Unremembered victory was started 20 years ago as a 6,000-word memoir about an unreported DMZ War that we did not start and won handily with honor and even audacity. Everywhere they loved the story but it seemed to be red lined as on never-to-be-told list. As the years went by, Klein discovered to his delight that the book was emerging as a perfect vehicle communicating a stream of optimistic ideas that popped into his head while running around the redwoods and meadows above his house. Altogether, unremembered victory adds up a compelling cry to the readers to insist the mainstream media honor these 4000 unremembered DMZ vets. Klein served 16 months facing the fire on the Korean DMZ. He remembers many times gladly going north of the fence, a free fire zone, at the height of the hostilities because it had to be done. Similarly, unremembered victory. This story is like taking the movie Platoon, turning it upside down and driving it into the ground like a tent peg. These 4,000 ordinary guys on the line in ’68 will be forever irrefutable evidence that we have what it takes just the way we are to be America. To be all in this together, nothing left out. Nothing can stop the author from believing this. Unremembered victory is intended to get you to feel the same way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unremembered Victory: Time for this Story to be American History. To get started finding Unremembered Victory: Time for this Story to be American History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This a 1968 story. A year that began as all before, still full of the glue that held us together, without irony people expected and stood for - -truth, justice, and the American way. Due to all the atrocities and stupidity of the Vietnam War, by the end of 1968, we did not know what we stood for and still don’t. This is a story about 4000 hapless ordinary GIs on the Korean DMZ who, due to their seamlessly honorable venture, never stopped believing it. They faced an enemy 200 times their size and kept the world from going nuclear if the line had not held. It did hold, the enemy would back down and this heroic episode catapulted South Korea from mud and sticks to a 1st World Power in less than two generations. However, any DMZ Vet will tell you, no one has a clue that there was ever a ground war in Korea 66-69 despite nearly 50 GIs KIA, three times the total killed in Panama, Desert Storm and Grenada combined. How are so many details so clear after 50 years? Spend enough time north of anti-infiltration fence in '68 and you never really leave. Accounts of what happened out there just get more intense when compared to the rest of your life. Though the author met GIs who were later killed or wounded, they were fortunately only abstractions to him. None were close enough to cause anything like ‘survivor’s remorse’, a root cause of PTSD suffered by so many DMZ war veterans. This is further complicated by these 'officially ordinary’ GIs never having been thanked or acknowledged for not letting the world go nuclear, so our children could be born. The first reason for the book is attaining the recognition due the 4,000 by making the DMZ War as well known in American history as any other 20th Century conflict. The second reason is to tell everyone we are far better than we are told. Better, once you believe that enough, you cannot get back to where you started - feeling bad about being an American. Year after year, Vietnam is the only story of the Boomer generation - - failure, atrocity, dishonor, moral collapse. Unremembered Victory is the second story to Nam, honor, valor, audacity, trust. For too many, the easy way to ease the pain of not feeling good about being an American is to feel superior to others. Letting hatred define you long enough makes you at risk of not even being there at all, only an embodiment of the hatred. The amazing performance of the 4000, by making you feel good again about being an American, eliminates the need to feel superior. It replaces it with the boundless amazement at how far we have all gotten by believing in each other. Unremembered victory was started 20 years ago as a 6,000-word memoir about an unreported DMZ War that we did not start and won handily with honor and even audacity. Everywhere they loved the story but it seemed to be red lined as on never-to-be-told list. As the years went by, Klein discovered to his delight that the book was emerging as a perfect vehicle communicating a stream of optimistic ideas that popped into his head while running around the redwoods and meadows above his house. Altogether, unremembered victory adds up a compelling cry to the readers to insist the mainstream media honor these 4000 unremembered DMZ vets. Klein served 16 months facing the fire on the Korean DMZ. He remembers many times gladly going north of the fence, a free fire zone, at the height of the hostilities because it had to be done. Similarly, unremembered victory. This story is like taking the movie Platoon, turning it upside down and driving it into the ground like a tent peg. These 4,000 ordinary guys on the line in ’68 will be forever irrefutable evidence that we have what it takes just the way we are to be America. To be all in this together, nothing left out. Nothing can stop the author from believing this. Unremembered victory is intended to get you to feel the same way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unremembered Victory: Time for this Story to be American History. To get started finding Unremembered Victory: Time for this Story to be American History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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