Tennessee Vietnam War Roundtable

For reasons that so far have eluded me, several of my books have been selected by Amazon as part of their beta-testing of a new audiobook technology. The technology allows almost instant production of an audiobook, so I decided to give it a try.

Two books have been posted: Point Spread, a young adult fiction novel, and Women with Words, a nonfiction collection of essays on women authors and journalists.

You Maplewood Panthers might enjoy Point Spread. It's a story set in the 1960s about a high school student (Trinity Lane High School) who wants to become a journalist so she can make a name for herself by covering the war in Vietnam. You may find much that is familiar.

Here are the links: Point Spread, https://www.amazon.com/ITEM_NAME/dp/B0CWS7B37C?asc_campaign=e02d2a0da3981a1ba1d378adfa26fe18&asc_source=01H192EPQVEZ7PT5P11H54TN97&tag=namespacebran486-20 ; Women with Words, https://www.amazon.com/Women-Words-Female-Journalists-Writers/dp/B0C2YRC7W5/ref=sr_1_18?crid=1GLF8BZ4IODX0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.K5Q7OI-68l14QhuCoLdRc4uMcJWjEpH-4BGlO9r4GesEm3h3MI26TYUQxHjcH1sKbfGtToa9gYpeoS8QzH5XjqIv13YDs4yeNVxVWEnaU7mTvfiQhmZgQLClZ8tTWEY9pFNp4MTk1zVGyII6_IOmKECTAxB9w8badqIE9LhTYE6RoU526br2cEjCz6H65uPY.IDmw_3ckHhrl90mzjZVf5gjfDqHdE0hFAJ1oKS4RNCE&dib_tag=se&keywords=Women+with+Words&qid=1709731679&s=audible&sprefix=women+with+words%2Caudible%2C121&sr=1-18

Vietnam Voices - A lawyer from the states | Vietnam Voices Marine Capt. Jerry Cunningham, a lawyer with the JAG corps, tells about the time with famed lawyer F. Lee Bailey came to Vietnam to defend a Marine accused of a war crime.

Vietnam Voices - Two little cowboys | Vietnam Voices Jim Kagley describes a more human side of the war in this special Christmas episode as he recounts his unit ordering cowboy outfits for two Vietnamese boys who did general chores for the soldiers.

Vietnam Voices, the podcast

We have begun producing a podcast based on our interviews with Vietnam veterans. The episodes in this podcast are short clips taken from the longer interviews. Most of the episodes range from two to six minutes, and we plan to post them on Tuesdays and Fridays. We think this will make the interviews more accessible and will expand our audience for the project.

You can listen to the podcast just about any place where you normally hear podcasts, such as Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. You can also listen to the episodes on JPROF.com and on the podcast website hosted by Simplecast.

To date, we have posted four episodes:

Aubrey Moncrief, an Air Force medic describing a patrol with the Green Beret unit to which he was assigned;

Billy Minser, discussing an incursion into Cambodia in 1970;

Russ Hanson, talking about a firefight with a unit of the North Vietnamese Army;

Bill Beaty, describing what it was like to fly bombing missions over North Vietnam.

Wherever you listen, please consider giving us a thumbs-up or a rating, and if there's a "follow" button, hit that one, too. All of this helps people find our episodes.

These stories are short, and they are well worth listening to.

Vietnam Voices - Attack pilot | Vietnam Voices Bill Beaty, an attack pilot in the U.S. Navy, tells what it was like to fly bombing missions over North Vietnam in 1970. "I got shot at a lot," he says.

"We didn't worry about body counts. We just didn't want any of the bodies to be ours." That tells you a lot about the difference between the commanding generals and the men on the ground in Vietnam.

"A wall of exploding steel around us" - a forward observer in combat in Vietnam (part 2) The Tennessee Vietnam War Roundtable presents Billy Minser, an artillery lieutenant in the U.S. Army, as he describes his experiences as a forward observer w...

Tennessee Vietnam War Roundtable updated their website address.

We had our first meeting (an online Zoom conference) of the Tennessee Vietnam War Roundtable on Monday night. This video contains a couple of short clips of our speaker, Billy Minser, who was a forward observer for a combat unit in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970. More clips from our conference will be posted soon.

TNVWR - What it took to be a Forward Observer with a combat unit in Vietnam (part 1) Tennessee Vietnam War Roundtable presents Billy Minser talking about what it meant to be a forward observer with a combat unit in Vietnam. Vietnam Voices: St...