Appalachian Veterans. INSTITUTION East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 313 196 RC 017 333 AUTHOR Arnow, Pat, Ed. TITLE Appalachian Veterans. INSTITUTION East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City. Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. PUB DATE 87 NOTE 53p. MAILABLE FROM Now and Then, CASS, Box 19180A, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614-0002 ($2.50). PUB TYPE Collected Works - Serials (022) -- Creative Works (Literature,Drama,Fine Arts) (030) -- Historical Materials (060) JOURNAL CIT Now and Then; v4 n3 Fall 1987 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Biographies; Essays; Geographic Regions; Personal Narratives; Poetry; Short Stories; United States History; *Veterans; Vietnam Veterans; War IDENTIFIERS *Appalachia; *Military History; Jietnam War; World War II ABSTRACT This journal issue focuses on Appalachian veterans and on the premise that Appalachians and Americans in general are still fighting the battles and dealing with the psychic aftermath of the Civil.War and all wars fought since then. One article notes that Appalachian soldiers were 20 to 25% n e likely to be killed in Vietnam than other soldiers. West Virginia had the highest average of battle deaths: 84.1/300,000. Pickens County, South Carolina has the highest number of Congressional Medal of Honor winners in the nation. Articles discuss Sergeant York and profile lesser known veterans of Vietnam and World War II. There are memoirs, fiction, and poetry about experiences of Appalachian natives in Vietnam. A study of Appalachian POWs in World War II reports that problems of former POWs are far more severe than had previously been established. An oral history project records memories of World War II veterans from East Tennessee and includes samples of the veterans' stories. Other selections describe a soldier's wife in the Civil War and volunteer work on the frontlines in World War II. Films and books about Appalachian veterans' experiences are reviewed. 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As members of the Now and COLUMNS '24 STORIES Then editorial advisory board, they will still be providing us with free FEATURES Medal of Ho;lor* 10 recommendations, writing and sup- ;:::Fred Chappell port. but at least we can formally More Than our Share of Heroes recognize their continuing contribution Mountaineers in Combat ....5 Green Fields Turned Red and interest in the magazine. They Ed Price a Story of Vietnam 26 .Thomas Rollins are: `The Effects of Those Times Robert J. Higgs is a professor of English at East Tennessee State We Had..." POETRY Prisoners of War University. He is co-editor (with Am- Phu Bai Poems 8 42 Years Later 31 brose Manning) of Voices from the Ron Giles Hills. a widely read anthology of Ap- Bert Allen The Other Vietnam Vet 23 palachian writing. He is also a sports Veterans of Appalachia literature expert with three books on Susan Roper that subject to his credit. His most re- Remember the cent contribution to regional literature World at War 35 Day Before Yesterday 30 was his article in Laughter in Ap- Colin Baxter Milt Tober palachia: A Festival of Southern In Revolt Against the Laws V.C. G.I. 45 Mountain Humor by Loyal Jones and of the Universe ".. Dan Crowe Billy Edd Wheeler (published by ..... ..37 August House). Joyce Duncan from Sense of Peace Marat Moore is a Johnson City A Soldier's Wife Frizier native who has lived in West Virginia, by Mrs. Robert Frank On ..38 What My Father NeverI - worked as a coal miner and now compiled byNancy Joyner works for the United Mine Workers of .Told Me .... America at their headquarters in Volunteers on the Frontlines Carson Washington. D.C. Shetis a reporter by a Veteran Guadalcanal . on the UMWA Journal and is working of the American on a book about women coal miners. 48 Field Service Henry Bober Rita Quillen is a poet and teacher McQuoiirn Wright living in Hiltons, Virginia. Her book of ESSAY ,-e poetry October Dusk was recently Preacher Pressley and the School : published by Seven Buffaloes Press. of the Way it Used to Be ...40' Dave Long D_uricari ;.. Now and Then Magazine PROFILES REVIEWS Now and Then is published three times a Bert Allen Long Shadows year by the Center for Appalachian Studies and Semites at East Tennessee State University. Jo Carson ,by Ross Spear Subscriptions art $7.50 per year ($10.00 for - institutions and libraries). Juanita Quillen 4RidlardEgausteln-; Submissions of poetry, fiction. scholarly and sitistai personal ssays. graphics and photographs con- Pat Amow An cerned with Appalachian life are welcomed if ...by DavidD. Lee . .42 1 accompanied by a self-addressed stamped Linnard Shnmons :.Charles L:-Wolier envelope. We will be careful but not responsibk Judy Odom for an materials. Address all correspondence to: Isle Little Shepherd of Kingdom Editor, Now and Then. CASS, Box 19, 180A, 20 ETSU. Johnson City, TN 37614-0002 David Evans Come by John Fox, Jr 43 East Tennessee State University is fully in ac Ed Price cord with the belief that educational and -Roberta Herrin employment opportunities should be available Geneva Jenkins 21 to all eligible persons without regard to age. The Beulah Quintet sex, race, religion. national origin or handicap. Jane Woodside "...the feral edge of what The views expressed in these pages are those hers ~lade us." of the authors and do not necessarily represent opinions of East Tennessee State University or Maw Lee Settle 44 of the State Board of Regents. Nancy Carol Joyner Now and Then/1 sectarian animosities between English, Scots-Irish and German settlers. It is curious to think that the same lead mines owned by the Quaker Embree family on the I Nolichucky River in what is now Upper East Tennessee i. not only provided the bullets which helped the Over- mountain Men defeat the British at King's Mountain but also the typo..which printed America's first anti-slavery newspaper, The Manumission Intelligencer, published in Vietnam veterans and returning mothers were among Jonesborough. With the outbreak of the Civil War, East my very favorite students when I first began teaching Tennessee and other sections of the mountain-rimmed sociology, anthropology and folklore at East Tennessee borderland drained by the Ohio River were literally State University in the fall of 1970. None of the ex- caught in the middle of the struggle between the Union aminations or assignments ! gave them could even begin and Confederacy. Vicious guerrilla warfare involving to compare with the real life tests they had already bushwhackers, bridge-burners, and night-riding home passed; unlike many of their younger, complacent guards brought the horrors of true civil war into the Ap- classmates, they had good mason to savor the precious palachian South, setting the stage for the infamous freedom of being able to carry on intelligent discussions mountain feuds which disrupted some unfortunate sec- with thoughtful peers in peaceful surroundings. Their tions well after the turn of this century. The fact that the backgrounds and experienccs contributed substance to majority of southern mountaineers upheld the Union our classroom conversation:, and on the whole I believe cause branded them as traitors and Tories in the eyes of I learned more from them than they ever got out of my Rebels; when former Confederates returned to political musings about human symbols, societies and cultural power following the demise of Reconstruction, vengeful constructions of reality. Particularly, friends and former flatland legislators punished mountain counties by students who founded Chapter 174 of the Vietnam withholding needed appropriations for schools, roads and Veterans of America in Johnson City helped me under- other essentials. In large measure, then,. Appalachian stand the process of "coming to terms with the alienation and underdevelopment can be seen as part of unspeakable;" coping with the psychological and emo- the living legacy of a war whial still continues to divide tional aftereffects of experiences that challenge our very Americans more than 120 years after Appomattox.