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Dear America

Letters Home from Vietnam

by Bernard Edelman

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A collection of letters, poems, and petitions from the front, written mostly by infantrymen to their families and friends, evokes the emotions of an intense longing for home, fear, hope, grief, and anger aroused by the Vietnam War.

CorrespondenceSoldiersAmerican Personal narrativesVietnam War, 1961-1975United states, description and travel