Veteran's Day--A Tight Place Reading List

Instead of our usual Monday guest post, here is a Veteran's Day Reading List: Perusing the titles, one might be tempted to rename this blog: Boys In a Tight Place, for the narratives are mostly about young men.
This is not an exhaustive list, by any means--just a sampling of books I've read (like all of the Vietnam War novels), or books that have been on my list to read for awhile.   (All of these--plus scads more--were on my lists for the PhD exams.)

World War I

A Farewell to Arms

The Good Soldier

Mrs. Dalloway (examines, in part, the psychological damage of a shell-shocked vet)

Parade's End (loved this one)

Regeneration (haven't read)

World War II

Catch-22

The Moon is Down

The Naked and the Dead

Slaughter-house Five

Vietnam War  

(These are all brilliant)

Dog Soldiers

Going After Cacciato

Paco' Story

The Things They Carried

Iraq War

Yellow Birds--Penned by a vet, I just ordered this for the library.

I kept these wars all 20th/21st C, despite the buzz surrounding the new film about Lincoln.


My daughter wants me to add this music video of Civil War re-enactors:


And I'm adding this video of Vietnam vets and Jane Fonda in Coming Home:

road home: p.c. police, eartha, revolver

i found (or rediscovered) three great songs on the way home.  hope you enjoy.

i wish you could read the sign--it reads "ho-made" pies.  i guess the p.c. police haven't been to panguitch, utah recently

i had a lot of caffeine on the long drive home, so i'm feeling manic, and already have the entire family unpacked, the laundry going, the milk, bread and produce run to the store completed, the kids bathed, the rental car returned, & some chocolate ingested.  so, yeah.