In a program that is entirely accessible online, historian Andrew Carroll presents and illustrates the correspondence between American soldiers during the Vietnam War. These documents, some unpublished, shed light on the everyday life of the conflict.
“They call me, take care of yourself, I’m fine”, One particular Arthur Bostamonde concludes in a letter to his mother. You can read Miss Corporal Museum of American War Letters (American War Corps Museum), which opened March 28 online. As Refers to it The New York Times, This is an example. “This letter, carefully written in black ink on yellow paper and dated November 12, 1967, is probably the last. [Bustamante] He wrote at the age of 22, two months before he was actively killed. ”
In the virtual exhibition, you can browse through a room with modest light that presents letters on its walls from soldiers or their families written during the Vietnam War. Along with them the announcements, audio documents and videos are reminiscent of the historical context of the deadly conflict of the Cold War.
Human experience
At the beginning of the project, a historian and historian with literary training. “Andrew Carroll is the director of the U.S. Center for War Correspondence at Chapman University in Orange, California, and the author of four volumes of Soldiers’ Letters.” Accurate The New York Times. Chapman University has been awarded $ 30,000 (25 25,500) in public endowment funding to set up this online museum, which is freely accessible.
The researcher tells New York daily that this interest in epistolary analysis and its human dimension comes from two letters: one – lost – from a friend who witnessed Tianmen’s experience in 1989, and another thanks to a relative who discovered the same year – to the Buchenwald camp after the release of an American soldier in 1945. Describes what came. Andrew Carroll explains that he wants to enrich the American Museum of War Letters with a collection from American Independence to 1776. Today, but he felt it was appropriate to start in Vietnam; In particular we see the importance of the theme of politics:
The big difference between the Vietnam War and the two world wars was that the letters were not censored, which created somewhat complicated conversations. The content seems to me to be much more subtle and rich than the letter of previous conflicts. ”
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1,600 journalists, 35 offices abroad, 130 Pulitzer Prizes and a total of 5 million subscribers, The New York Times So far the country’s leading daily, in which we can read “All messages to print”
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