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Accidental Soldier
A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era
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2009
Summary
Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B. Schwartz's military experiences, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1959, Vietnam was little more than a word on a map; within ten years, Americans saw the Tet Offensive and their campuses in flames. Schwartz was at the ground zeroes of that time, teaching at the United States Military Academy from 1967-69 and then going to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, just after the Dow riots and before the bombing of Sterling Hall. The central portion of the book focuses upon Schwartz's experience at West Point, its cadets, officer corps and system of education. A sequel to his award-winning memoir, The Biggest City in America, Accidental Soldier reflects upon his military and academic experience through the perspective of an over forty-year teaching career, twenty-nine of which were spent as a dean at Wisconsin, Georgetown and the University of Missouri, Columbia.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4835-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4836-3
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
180
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. ROTC No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 02. Summer Camp No access Pages 13 - 28
Chapter 03. Delay Status No access Pages 29 - 38
Chapter 04. The Classroom Today/The Battlefield Tomorrow No access Pages 39 - 56
Chapter 05. USMA—The People No access Pages 57 - 68
Chapter 06. USMA—The Program No access Pages 69 - 80
photospread No access Pages b - h
Chapter 07. USMA—The Cadets No access Pages 81 - 91
Chapter 08. USMA—The Individuals No access Pages 92 - 102
Chapter 09. USMA and Me No access Pages 103 - 113
Chapter 10. USMA and the Family No access Pages 114 - 124
Chapter 11. Transitioning No access Pages 125 - 130
Chapter 12. The War at Home No access Pages 131 - 144
Conclusion No access Pages 145 - 162
Four Decades Later No access Pages 163 - 168
Abbreviations, Expressions and Acronyms No access Pages 169 - 172
