veterans

Maxine Hong Kingston explains how she struggled to rebuild her life after all her earthly possessions burned in a house fire and how she realized her own loss helped her realize what it would be like to fight in a war, leading her to reach out to veterans of war and share her views as a lover a peace.

Fidelis Waldvogel, a German sniper during WWI, returns home to marry the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action, and seeking a better life moves his family to North Dakota where he sets up a butcher shop, starts a singing club, and battles an attraction to the mysterious Delphine, a performer who has returned to Argus to care for her alcoholic father.

The author describes his experiences over the course of a year of service as an infantryman with the U.S. Army in Vietnam in the 1960s.

Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone.

Vietnam veteran and American politician Max Cleland describes his life and the adversities he has faced, including the loss both his legs and right forearm in the Vietnam War, being labeled as unpatriotic by members of the Republican party, and more.

Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England after being injured in World War II, and befriends Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the two begin a romance that is eventually threatened by a mentor from Laurie's school days.

A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.