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The middle of anywhere you should have access to staffs reliable internet. We are leading the way. Media, along with these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Resident doctor andrew weiss sitting in the middle. University distinguished professor of history in the school of humanity at the university of southern mississippi. I. Reese also the founding director of the dell center for the study of war and society. Several major publications including vietnams forgotten heroism and betrayal for which she won the society for military history distinguished book award. So i know i mispronounce part of that. But take it away. [applause] good afternoon. I have the arm today of posting america war panel here at the mississippi book festival id like to thank the festivals organizers especially ellen rogers and daniels who is out early b wearing this beautiful dress with butterflies on it. You all think or if you see here. And i would like to thank the audience members both he
Nonfiction authors about their latest work. Host linda, cofounder and co organizer of the womens march, coauthor of this incredible new book together we rise. Behind the scenes of the protest heard around the world. On january 21 it will be the Year Anniversary of the largest protest in america history. How do you get involved . Take us back to the moment when he first decided that you could do this to i was just like everybody else that had a couple minutes to spare after the november election in 2016 and was sitting online just like everyone else transfigure out and analyze why are we in the situation and i started seeing posts of his events about this million women march and i was like my first instinct was to be like there is already a million women martin and was organized by black women in 1997 but i digress and i started going into the actual pages to see the commentary and what conversations were having and i actually said i made a comment in there and said i hope that you incl
Reason i chose the years 67 but the years before that were ramping up that was of big your but in some ways to the quintessential of that war with their lives in open dreams were City Slickers from cleveland and migrant farm workers and Young African americans then sharecroppers from the south in his remarks angeles with a hodgepodge of one end to be at the time. That military units were all drafted, the same day in march finding of a movie shown men were in the infantry platoon and i was able to get the company very well. To understand who they were of people so Charlie Company in the the bigger than that you dont have a representative sample of what was to be a soldier in vietnam 1967 yet most of these soldiers had ever been in battle before trading in the middle of kansas there is no all over the ground but of course, in vietnam it is over 100 degrees that is a jarring circumstance then they go were practicing to be in the military smack dab in the middle of a difficult or just nort
Were central so for example, the ways in which an american president or policymaker referred to vietnam as she. The american man that is going out to bring democracy and spread american foreignpolicy. All of these issues were tied into gender so no one knew what the vietnam story would look like if we put women and is gendered ideas at the center of the story. They are at the star the start e vietnam war and maybe 1 of them were women. They also served the next biggest number in the army corps is the only has about 800 american women that served in vietnam over the course of the military presence from 1965 to 1972, 73 and then they also served in vietnam as civilians through humanitarian organizations, through churches, mainly through the red cross. In terms of vietnamese women from the american perspective, vietnamese women served a couple functions for the u. S. Military in vietnam. One of the functions was to serve as Domestic Workers on american bases. So, women who are watching Am