In July 2024 Medic received an email from international educator, photographer, and ’68 Air Force FAC team sergeant Ted Engelmann, who has taught or lectured in middle schools thru college level in Korea, Viet Nam, Australia, Canada and the US. Based on his direct involvement in returning the diary to Dang’s family Ted updated my […]
In May 2024, after hearing from international educator and former FAC team ’68 Sergeant Ted Engelmann, Medic updated his article on the diary of North Vietnamese physician Dang Thuy Tram. The following month Ted provided the item below. Examining the Seven-Flag Chieu Hoi Pass: A Primary Document from the American War in Viet Nam Between […]
Many novels, poems and nonfiction accounts have been written about war, as well the American war in Vietnam. Below is Medic’s completely subjective reading list. Literature Paco’s Story, Larry Heinemann. Farrar Straus, Giroux, 1986. National Book Award, 1987. Reissued by Viking Press, 1989. Reissued by Penguin, 2002. The only man to survive a ferocious attack, […]
The Death and Life of Dang Thuy Tram
CounterPunch published this piece by Medic in 2006. After an ambush, bodies were scavenged for souvenirs–money, pistols, photos, etc. Anything important was sent to military intelligence. “Don’t burn this one. It has fire in it already,” said Fred Whithurst’s interpreter in 1970. Ignoring orders to burn all items without military value, the young Captain Whitehurst […]