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| Preface | ||
| Pt. 1 | World War II | |
| Leonard Smith, Army Tan Corporal, 1942-1945 | 3 | |
| Margaritte Gertrude Ivory-Bertram, Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps, 1941-1945 | 9 | |
| Luther H. Smith, Air Force Captain, 1942-1947 | 15 | |
| Thomas Hayswood McPhatter, Marine Sergeant, 1944-1946; Navy Reserves Chaplain, 1953-1959; Navy Chaplain Captain 1959-1983 | 23 | |
| Waverly B. Wodson, Jr., Army Medic Corporal, 1942-1945; Army Reserves Sergeant, 1945-1952 | 29 | |
| Gladys O. Thomas-Anderson, Private, Women's Army Corps, 1944-1946 | 33 | |
| James Tillman, Army Sergeant, 1942-1945 | 39 | |
| James Hairston, Navy Steward, 1938-1960, World War II and Korea | 45 | |
| Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., Vice Admiral, Navy Reserves, 1942-1949; Navy, 1949-1980, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam | 49 | |
| Pt. 2 | Korea | |
| Charles Armstrong, Army, 1945-1956, Sergeant, World War II; Lieutenant, Korea | 57 | |
| Stephen Hopkins, Army Corporal, 1950-1953 | 63 | |
| Robert Yancey, Navy Cook, 1943-1947, World War II; Navy Reserves, 1947-1950; Army Sergeant, 1950-1971, Korea and Vietnam | 67 | |
| Julius W. Becton, Jr., Army Lieutenant General, 1944-1983; Army Reserves, 1943, 1946-1948, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam | 77 | |
| Pt. 3 | Vietnam | |
| Norman Smith, Marine Sergeant, 1964-1967 | 85 | |
| Elizabeth Allen, Army Nurse Corps, Captain, 1967-1969; Army Reserves Major, 1969-1982 | 91 | |
| James Robbins, Army Lieutenant, 1966-1969 | 99 | |
| Donald Rander, Army Sergeant, 1962-1983 | 107 | |
| Olivia Theriot, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, 1959-1979 | 117 | |
| James Brantley, Army Radioman, Specialist E-3, 1965-1967 | 121 | |
| Marie Rodgers, Colonel, Army Nurse Corps, 1952-1978, Korea and Vietnam | 127 | |
| Alfredo Alexander, Army Private, 1967-1969 | 133 | |
| Pt. 4 | Persian Gulf War | |
| Dariton Battle, Marine Sergeant, 1975-1995 | 141 | |
| Janet Pennick, Army, 1974-1977; Army Reserves, 1977-1998 | 147 | |
| J. Alexander Martin, Navy E-4, 1989-1991 | 153 | |
| Lester Outterbridge, Army Private, 1968-1970; National Guard Specialist 4, 1988-1996, Vietnam and Persian Gulf War | 157 | |
| Pt. 5 | War on Terror | |
| Anthony LaSure, Air Force Captain, 1989-1999; Air National Guard Major, 1999-present, Operation Noble Eagle | 165 | |
| Eric Mitchell, Air Force Captain, 1996-present, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom | 171 | |
| Vincent Brooks, Army Brigadier General, 1980-present, Operation Iraqi Freedom | 177 | |
| Acknowledgments | 183 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Robert Stockman
reviewed We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq on May 08, 2015
We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq
This was a fairly fascinating, albeit short, book. Black veterans of every conflict from World War Two up to the more current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq share their experiences. They recount painful details of discrimination, in addition to the usual horrors that one finds attendant to war. Indeed, the book deserves a ton of credit for the balanced way it shows how black Americans were ostracized from sharing in equal citizenship with their white cohorts, and yet, despite this, how they persevered in their soldiering duties without giving in to hatred or bitterness. The book makes no bones about the racial skeletons in America's closet, but neither does it belabor the point, or have an axe to grind. The best tales for me were the ones that centered on the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. It was also fascinating and tragic to hear how black GIs received better treatment from their Japanese and Nazi (!) captors than they many times received at home, from white Americans.
If I have one minor complaint (the reason for the four, rather than five-star rating), it's that some of the narratives are just too short. The reader sometimes only gets two to three page thumbnail sketches of some very fascinating individuals, who suffered through the privations of German stalags or the liberating of the concentration camps. It would have been nice to see some of these very abbreviated tales expanded, if not to book length, then at least to more than a couple of mere pages.
The above is a fairly minor cavil, though, against a book that, as a veteran, and as an American, I found to be an illuminating, and above all necessary reading experience.
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