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"Were you ever spat upon when you returned home to the United States?" asked syndicated columnist Greene of the Vietnam veterans among his readership. He received over 1000 letters in reply, many recounting specific details of just such a painfully remembered incident. Evidently this recollection of "hippies" (as they are often called in the letters) spitting on combat veterans has become one of the war's most unpleasant, enduring images. Conversely, other letters describe acts of generosity toward servicemen, from the typical free beers at the bar to a free show. But the over 200 letters excerpted here do more than confirm popular notions. They bring back the incidents of 20 years ago vividly, but not always with bitterness. And they reveal healing solidarity among veterans in response to what for many was not a happy homecoming. Recommended. Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
- Sales Rank: #166928 in Books
- Published on: 1989-01-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 20.00" h x 20.00" w x 20.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 269 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Chicago Tribune staffer Greene composed several of his syndicated columns around responses he received from Vietnam vets after he asked whether any of them had been spat upon. Unfortunately, the enormous impact of the columns is lost in their expansion to book form. Some servicemen were spat upon on their return, but more suffered verbal abuse or icy indifference. Many contributors point out that they did what their country asked them to do, and they were stunned by the cruelty, even savagery, of some of the anti-war protesters, many of whom proclaimed belief in love and peace. Some are still not reconciled to the treatment they received, while others welcome the change in the attitude toward them as a chance "to wipe a little spit off our hearts."
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
"Were you ever spat upon when you returned home to the United States?" asked syndicated columnist Greene of the Vietnam veterans among his readership. He received over 1000 letters in reply, many recounting specific details of just such a painfully remembered incident. Evidently this recollection of "hippies" (as they are often called in the letters) spitting on combat veterans has become one of the war's most unpleasant, enduring images. Conversely, other letters describe acts of generosity toward servicemen, from the typical free beers at the bar to a free show. But the over 200 letters excerpted here do more than confirm popular notions. They bring back the incidents of 20 years ago vividly, but not always with bitterness. And they reveal healing solidarity among veterans in response to what for many was not a happy homecoming. Recommended. Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
One of the few truly essential books on American military history.
By Alan E. Creager
To begin, this book was published in 1989 by John Deadline Enterprises, Inc. but for some reason has the name Putnam- from G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York, NY- on the spine. But anyway. My copy is a 1989 hardcover, with a white background, mostly blue lettering, and an illustration of an American flag, a GI and his duffel bag, both in olive drab. I bought my copy at the Tuckahoe Branch of Henrico County Public Library for $1.00, which is a far cry from its self-listed price of $17.95 and an indescribably long way from what it is truly worth.
But the price of this book is immaterial, as is the price of any great work. Something that so many seem to forget, but in the past and present, is that the quality or lack thereof endures long after nobody cares to remember the price.
The original price of this book is already fading into memory, but its quality will surely endure.
"Homecoming" is a work of stunning force. It makes no deliberate effort to draw you in, but if the subject matter it discusses doesn't at all interest you I don't know what will. It is the product of an overwhelming response that Greene got to a newspaper column he printed, asking for veterans of the Vietnam War to write in and tell their take on the generic story that the typical veteran returning from Vietnam was spat on by hippies at the airport.
Greene noted being told several times that readers of the column and its responses had deliberately sought privacy before reading, and some were brought to tears. That's how much emotion this book, even before its creation, involved.
This is not some definitive history of the war in Vietnam. Not in any way. It is instead a collection of stories, responses to Bob Greene's original question to Vietnam veterans. The responses it contain cover just about every kind of response possible. Vehement "Yes"s, equally forceful "No"s, and all manner of in between's. One man was bitter enough, even after so many years, that he said that unless there was a war in Texas he wouldn't show up again. I don't blame him, and I don't think anybody should.
There's a lot more to the generic story of a soldier returning from Vietnam and being spat on by a hippie. This book shows that beyond a doubt. One man, in fact, after being ignored and rejected by such institutions as the American Legion, found acceptance among the war protestors and hippies you'd think would have treated him as a pariah.
This book makes no judgement on any of the men and women who wrote in. There are occasional sections where Greene breaks in and makes commentary on his own thoughts and feelings as he assembled "Homecoming", and I thank him for adding his own comments without passing judgement.
"Homecoming" ends with a woman's story of she and her son posting a banner over their garage one morning, ten years after the end of the Vietnam War. A young man delivering newspapers arrives and tearfully thanks her for putting the sign up. When she apologizes for the sign being ten years late, the young man says, "Lady, it's never too late."
Few books have ever left so powerful an impression upon me as this one did. If you never read even one book on the Vietnam War, I implore you to make this one an exception.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent account of a very bad time!
By R. J. Nichols Sr.
This book was everything and more that I hoped it would be. Being a Vietnam veteran it was very painful to read. I thought I had finally buried that experience where it wouldn't bother me anymore but when I started reading the book it brought all the hate, disgust and feelings of betrayal rushing back again. I buried them before and I'll do it again but I'll never forgive those that betrayed us while we were doing our duty to our country or treated us like they did when we came home. I personally believed the war was justified but whether it was or not, there was no reason for the hatred to be aimed at those of us in the service that were simply doing our jobs. My thought is that it was their way of covering the their own guilt.
I read Bob Greene's "Once Upon a Town" concerning the selfless gratitude the residents of North Platte, Nebraska bestowed on the servicemen passing by the thousands through their town during WWII. That made this book by him all the more poignant because it was almost the complete opposite. I'm not saying everyone was rude, crude or just plain obnoxious to us. There were people thanking us for serving even back then but they were drowned out by the media circus promoting dissent. I am glad the warfighters returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated much better than we were even though it does make me a little jealous.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
KNOW YOUR SPIT!
By John M. Lane
This is a review of HOMECOMING: WHEN THE SOLDIERS RETURNED FROM VIETNAM by Bob Greene, a prominent author and syndicated columnist for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Mine is the hard-cover edition published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York during 1989. The book has 269 pages of text and has no bibliography, end-notes, or index.
Greene writes well and it's apparent from his easily read style why he's such a successful journalist. He's also open-minded. Noting the shift in public attitudes regarding those who served in Vietnam, Greene questioned the iconic accounts of returning soldiers being spat upon and verbally abused by hippies upon their return to the US. He didn't think it happened and he raised the issue in his syndicated column asking Vietnam vets to send him their experiences. They did.
Greene received thousands of replies and they form the heart of his book. Some vets recalled in detail how they'd been spat upon and abused when they returned to the US. Others recalled positive treatment upon their return. One returning soldier was picked up, welcomed home and transported to his destination by a hippie who's brother was in Vietnam.
Other vets were ignored, neither welcomed nor vilified. Greene consequently organized his book into three sections. Those who were spat upon. Those who were welcomed home and those who came home without any noteworthy incidents whatsoever.
This is a worthwhile addition to the literature of that troubled era in US history. I liked the book and gave it five stars.
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