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Ehrhart, W. D.--(William Daniel),--1948- , Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Veterans--United States, Marijuana--Law and legislation--United States, United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
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1995
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DS559.72.E36 1995eb
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959.704/342
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Ehrhart, W. D.--(William Daniel),--1948- , Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Veterans--United States, Marijuana--Law and legislation--United States, United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
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Busted
A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America
W. D. Ehrhart
Foreword by H. Bruce Franklin
University of Massachusetts Press / Amherst
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"Guerrilla War" and "A Relative Thing," which appear in H. Bruce Franklin's foreword, were first published in A Generation of Peace (New York: New Voices, 1975) and are reprinted by permission of W. D. Ehrhart.
Copyright 1995 by W. D. Ehrhart. Foreword copyright 1995 by H. Bruce Franklin. All rights reserved This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts Boston. ISBN 0-87023-955-4(cloth) LC 94-37563 Set in Adobe New Caledonia Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ehrhart, W.D. (William Daniel), 1948 Busted: a Vietnam veteran in Nixon's America / W.D. Ehrhart; foreword by H. Bruce Franklin. p. cm. ISBN 0-87023-955-4 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Vietnamese Conflict, 19611975VeteransUnited StatesPersonal narrative. I. Title DS559.5.E37 1995 959.704'38dc2094-37563 CIP
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For Anne & Leela
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Contents
Foreword by H. Bruce Franklin
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Preface
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Busted
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Foreword
Among the hundreds of authors whose works I have assigned in dozens of courses at American public and private universities since 1961, I have never seen one have the same impact as W. D. Ehrhart. I have not even heard about any other author having the kind of effect I have witnessed.
In 1981 I began teaching a course called "Vietnam and America" at Rutgers University in Newark, an urban branch campus of New Jersey's state university attended mainly by working-class students. Two of the books that always seemed to generate enthusiastic responses were Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War, the splendid anthology edited by Ehrhart, and Passing Time (originally published as Marking Time), the second of his extraordinary autobiographical memoirs. So each year I used some of the modest funds available for lecturers to have Ehrhart come to the class to read his poems and discuss the war. But in 1993, when funds for lecturers disappeared (thanks to the financial crisis crippling public higher education), I was unable to invite him or any of the other Vietnam veteran authors who had generously shared their time with previous classes. When I walked into the classroom on the day Passing Time was due, there was a strange hubbub. One very bright, articulate, and conservative young man, who had attended a military school and was planning to be a career military officerand who had been arguing vociferously with me all semesterseemed especially upset. Suddenly he blurted out:
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"I've never read a book like this. It's changing my whole life." The next thing I knew, he was up in front of the class saying, "We've got to have this guy come talk with us. Why don't we kick in to get whatever it takes to bring him." There was a chorus of assent. Someone called out from the back, "Let's each put in five dollars.'' Someone else yelled, ''five dollars? It costs seven fifty just to see a movie." "OK," said a new voice, "let's make it ten dollars." And so most of these students, almost all of whom work at least part time to be able to afford tuition, contributed ten dollars apiece to get a visit from W. D. Ehrhart.
When Ehrhart came, the student who had led this spontaneous movement made the introduction and then handed him the bundle of cash. In characteristic style, Ehrhart said later that this money meant more to him than any he had ever received in his life. His lecture was, as always, electrifying, and he had to be almost literally torn away from students still hanging on his every word over an hour after the class officially ended.
This was one of the most thrilling experiences I have had in my decades as a teacher. But it was also puzzling. For if these working-class students, a heterogeneous mix of America's urban and suburban ethnic groups, responded with such fervor to Ehrhart's writing, why were his books not selling in the hundreds of thousands? These were no elite or coterie readers, but ordinary Americans representing a vast potential audience. Ehrhart's relative obscurity on America's literary landscape could hardly be explained by any loss of interest in the Vietnam War and the literature generated by it. Literature by Vietnam veterans has been especially honored and well received: Larry Heinemann's
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