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04187aam a22004338i 4500 001 EE0CF3364D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230907010029 008 230129t20232023txu b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2023003601 020 $a 1574418963 020 $a 9781574418965 035 $a (OCoLC)1356223727 040 $a TXA/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d ZQP $d UKMGB $d EAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-vt--- $a a-vt--- 050 00 $a DS559.44 K43 2023 084 $a BIO008000 $a BIO008000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Kearney, James C., $d 1946- $e author. 245 10 $a Duty to serve, duty to conscience : $b the story of two conscientious objector combat medics during the Vietnam War / $c James C. Kearney and William H. Clamurro. 264 1 $a Denton, Texas : $b University of North Texas Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xviii, 237 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a North Texas military biography and memoir series ; $v no. 21 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index. 505 0 $a Poems / by William Clamurro -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue / Kearney -- Texas A&M: "Pray for War" or "dulce bellum inexpertis" / Kearney -- You're in the Army Now; Training at Fort Sam Houston / Kearney -- "I Don't Give a Damn, Next Stop is Vietnam" / Kearney -- Things We Saw on the Ground / Clamurro -- Cu Chi and Cambodia / Kearney -- Cu Chi: R & R, Intensive Care, Morgue, and MEDCAP / Kearney -- Reports from the Field, Vietnam '69-'71 / Clamurro -- Medevac Medic / Kearney -- Final Mission / Kearney -- Nostos-Homecoming / Kearney -- The Conscience that Was Lost: 1-A-O Medics in Vietnam / Clamurro -- A Final Word / Kearney and Clamurro. 520 $a "Despite all that has been written about Vietnam, the story of the 1-A-O conscientious objector, who agreed to put on a uniform and serve in the field without weapons rather than accept alternative service outside the military, has received scarce attention. This joint memoir by two 1-A-O combat medics, James C. Kearney and William H. Clamurro, represents a unique approach to the subject. It is a blend of their personal narratives-with select Vietnam poems by Clamurro-to illustrate noncombatant objection as a unique and relatively unknown form of Vietnam War protest. Both men initially met during training and then served as frontline medics in separate units "outside the wire" in Vietnam. Clamurro was assigned to a tank company in Tay Ninh province next to the Cambodian border, before reassignment to an aid station with the 1st Air Cavalry. Kearney served first as a medic with an artillery battery in the 1st Infantry Division, then as a convoy medic during the Cambodian invasion with the 25th Infantry Division, and finally as a Medevac medic with the 1st Air Cavalry. In this capacity Kearney was seriously wounded during a "hot hoist" in February 1971 and ended up being treated by his friend Clamurro back at base. Because of their status as "a new breed of conscientious objector"-i.e., more political than religious in their convictions-the authors' experience of the Vietnam War differed fundamentally from that of their fellow draftees and contrasted even with the great majority of their fellow 1-A-O medics, whose conscientious objector status was largely or entirely faith-based"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Kearney, James C., $d 1946- 600 10 $a Clamurro, William H. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x Medical personnel $v Biography. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Medical care. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Conscientious objectors $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Personal narratives, American. 700 1 $a Clamurro, William H., $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kearney, James C., 1946- $t Duty to serve, duty to conscience $d Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2023 $z 9781574419030 $w (DLC) 2023003602 830 0 $a North Texas military biography and memoir series ; $v no. 21. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004011910.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EE0CF3364D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search