Hard Men Humble
Subtitle: Vietnam Veterans Who Wouldn't Come Home
Publisher: Free Press
Published: May 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780684842646
Subjects: American history: Vietnam War; Asian history: Vietnam War; Cultural studies; Social groups & communities; War & defence operations; United States - 20th Century; Military - Veterans; U.S. History - Vietnam Conflict (1965-1973); Veterans; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; History; History - Military / War; United States; History: American; USA; Vietnam; Military - Vietnam War; Anthropology - Cultural; Current Events / General; Asia, Southeastern; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Americans; Southeast Asia
First sentence: You couldn't easily find a more marginalized group of men.
Description: "It is finally time to come to terms with a generation of underappreciated, now middle-aged men: America's Vietnam veterans. In many ways they were no different from the men who left for Europe in 1917, or for Asia and Europe in 1942. They were young, freshly trained, scared yet determined soldiers.

In Hard Men Humble, Jonathan Stevenson introduces us to a community of expatriate Vietnam veterans - the men who wouldn't or couldn't leave Southeast Asia, and could not leave behind the people they had fought and defended. Some were military heroes and remain unalloyed patriots. Some questioned or condemned the war and find their patriotism forever compromised by it. Some stayed behind in order to relive the best part of the war with girls, golf, and Singha beer at smoky saloons. Others were moved to atone for the war with charity - educating Thai children, building hospitals for the Vietnamese, or providing medical care to Laotians they had befriended when soldiers.

Whatever each man's motivation, the one attribute virtually all expat vets share is the desire to do what so many Americans don't want them to do: remember the Vietnam War."--BOOK JACKET.