Bringing It All Back Home
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I would like to thank the following colleagues for their constant encouragement and help: Alan Brinkley, Mike Foley, Robert David Johnson, Andy Meyer, Steven Remy, and David Troyansky.
Julie McGarvey and Jennifer Farbar provided invaluable editorial and intellectual support.
Then there are those whose contributions can’t be categorized: Adriana and Gabriella Napoli, Dorothy Napoli, Michael and Judy Schwartz, Joan and Larry Adelman, Stephanie Sargent and Ralph Bernstein, Philip Shaw, Peter Schilling, James Rich, Alice Kenny, and Nikki Giannini.
Gay Culverhouse was instrumental in making this book possible.
The acknowledgments for this work would be incomplete without the name of the late professor James Shenton of Columbia University. Jim, a World War II combat medic, was my teacher and mentor. “War never leaves you,” he once said to me. “It lives in your bones.”
A Note About the Author
Philip F. Napoli is an assistant professor of history at Brooklyn College, where he also directs the Vietnam Oral History Project. He conducted many of the interviews included in Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation. He lives in New York City.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Napoli, Philip F., 1960–
Bringing it all back home: an oral history of New York City’s Vietnam veterans / Philip F. Napoli. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8090-7318-4 (hbk.: alk. paper)
1. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Veterans—New York (State)—New York—Interviews. 2. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Personal narratives, American. 3. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—New York (State)—New York. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Biography I. Title. II. Title: An oral history of New York City’s Vietnam veterans.
DS559.5 .N367 2012
959.704'30922—dc23
2012034731
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