PALMER : Shrapnel in the heart (fülszöveg)
Since its dedication in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become the embodiment of America's pain, grief, and healing in the wake of our least popular war. Millions have solemnly visited this haunting shrine, remembering, reconciling, and renewing. Shrapnel in the Heart tells of their offerings: the countless letters left at the wall by the wives, children, siblings, parents, and friends of the 58,132 Americans whose names are etched in the black granite, and in our memories.
For many months, Laura Palmer, a reporter who covered the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon, traveled across the United States, tracing the authors of these heart-rending letters to the dead and listening to their stories. What she found were survivors, long isolated with their grief, who had finally been able to express, at the memorial, their sense of pain and loss.
Politicians and journalists, antiwar protesters and historians, all have been heard from on Vietnam. Shrapnel in the Heart presents for the first time the voices of the Americans most deeply touched by the war those whose kin, loved ones, or buddies died in Southeast Asia. In words of simple eloquence, they tell tenderly, sometimes angrily, what it means to lose someone you love in a war that America came to hate.
But Shrapnel in the Heart is not about despair. It is a book about love that bombs couldn't shatter and bullets couldn't kill.
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| KATALÓGUS | TARTALOM |
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