Title The education of Corporal John Musgrave : Vietnam and its aftermath / John Musgrave ; foreword by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

Publication Info.	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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Edition	First edition.
Description	xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents	Born to serve -- The house of horrors -- Drill instruction -- Finishing school -- Shipping out -- First contact -- Joining the varsity team -- M-I-S-E-R-Y -- Operation buffalo -- The kill zone -- Leaving the corps -- Big vet on campus -- Joining the VVAW -- Public speaking -- Finding the others -- Epilogue : coming full circle.
Summary	Like nearly all the boys he knew, John Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day he could enlist in the Marine Corps and serve his country as his father had done. In this memoir, Musgrave renders his wartime service with intimacy and immediacy: from the rude awakening of boot camp to daily life in the Vietnam jungle to the chest wound that nearly killed him. Musgrave also describes the difficulty of returning home to a society rife with antiwar sentiment his own survivor's guilt, and the slow realization that he and his fellow veterans had been betrayed by the government they served.
	"A Marine's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Musgrave, John, 1948-
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.
	United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.
	United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 9th.
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Biography.
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States.
	Veterans -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- 20th century.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
	HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War.
	PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
	United States. Marine Corps. (OCoLC)fst00528845
	United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 9th. (OCoLC)fst01929764
	Protest movements. (OCoLC)fst01079826
	Veterans. (OCoLC)fst01165710
	Veterans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01165802
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664
Chronological Term	1961-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Personal narratives -- American. (OCoLC)fst01424071
	Autobiographies.
Added Author	Burns, Ken, 1953- writer of foreword.
	Novick, Lynn, writer of foreword.
Added Title	Vietnam and its aftermath
Other Form:	Online version: Musgrave, John, 1948- Education of Corporal John Musgrave First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] 9780451493576 (DLC) 2020021755
ISBN	9780451493569 (hardcover)
	0451493567 (hardcover)

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