Digging To Indochina

Author : Connie Biewald
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595839592
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging to Indochina written by Connie Biewald and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Ivy MacKenzie is consumed by bitterness over the tragic death of her Vietnam veteran father. Desperate to break free of a family that doesn't understand her and a small town that suffocates her, Ivy runs away with Gil Thompson-a stranger who shows her a passion she's never known and a violent danger she never saw coming. Ivy's younger brother Bryan has a tender heart, conflicting memories, and a fierce loyalty to his family. Their disengaged, high-strung mother Carol parents as best she knows how while coping with her own lingering heartbreak and entering into a new relationship. Though their voices and struggles are their own, each of the MacKenzies grapples with loss and disappointment and yearns for love and belonging. Together, they come of age and come to terms with the ways that memories and dreams can blur reality; they learn what it means to embrace family, flaws and all; and they discover how digging to Indochina can help them find their way home. "Biewald's writing probes and sifts the buried storage vaults of family relationships with an archaeologist's precision."-Lois Lowry, creator of the popular Anastasia Krupnik series and two-time recipient of the Newbery Medal for her books The Giver and Number the Stars "An always interesting, authentic story about the next generation, the children of Vietnam veterans-children who dig, not to China, but to Indochina. A good solid read." -Grace Paley, author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day

Author : Connie Biewald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595770342
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging to Indochina written by Connie Biewald and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivy MacKenzie, at seventeen, spends most of her time hanging out at Rivertown Billiards, the local pool hall that her dead father, a Vietnam veteran, also loved. Her swaggering bravado hides her inner insecurity; she

Author : Connie Biewald
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059538501X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roses Take Practice written by Connie Biewald and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I went to the kitchen, took off my coat. You'll find vat you need in the freezer, said the voice. Seven loaf cakes waited for me. I took them out to thaw. I covered a board with foil and prepared to mix an industrial sized batch of icing. Don't you be using shortening in that! In the refrigerator, I found pounds and pounds of butter. As I unwrapped each one, it softened in my hands, soft enough to mix with sugar. Shaping the cakes, gluing them together, listening to the voice in my head as I mixed colors I never knew existed and would never be able to recreate, I lost track of time. The butter cream, usually next to impossible to work with, held its shape better than any shortening. I lost myself in the cake, the last cake Sofie and I would make together. Praise for author Connie Biewald's Digging to Indochina "Digging is an apt metaphor for Connie Biewald's writing, which probes and sifts the buried storage vaults of family relationships with an archaeologist's precision. Her work will appeal to those readers who love the fiction of Anne Tyler and Carol Shields." -Lois Lowry, author of Newbery Medal Award-winning books, Number the Stars and The Giver Visit Biewald's website at www.conniebiewald.com.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indochina written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gargus
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 162349513X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combat Talons in Vietnam written by John Gargus and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat Talons in Vietnam is a personal account of the first use of C-130s in the Vietnam War. It provides an insider’s view of crew training and classified missions for this technologically advanced aircraft. Many covert missions over North Vietnam were successful, but one night, John Gargus, a mission planner, oversaw an operation in which the aircraft—carrying eleven crewmembers—failed to return from a nighttime mission. For thirty years, a search for the missing aircraft remained in progress. In the late 1990s, the Combat Talon veteran community at Hurlburt Field in Florida, still uncertain of the full story, decided to dedicate a memorial to the lost crew. When wartime mission records were declassified, Gargus embarked on a long journey of inquiry, research, and puzzle-solving to reconstruct the events of that mission and the fate of its crew. He discovered that the wreckage of the plane had been found in 1992 and that the remains of the crew were being held in Hawaii. Through numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, interviews, and site visits, Gargus sought to answer the question of why it took so long to find the wreckage and, more importantly, why the special operations command units were left uninformed. By 2000, the remains were relocated to a common grave at Arlington National Cemetery at last providing a measure of closure to family, friends, and comrades.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War-related Civilian Problems in Indochina written by United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relief and Rehabilitation of War Victims in Indochina written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
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Download or read book Relief and Rehabilitation of War Victims in Indochina written by United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relief and Rehabilitation of War Victims in Indochina: South Vietnam and regional problems written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: