Troubled Hero: A Medal of Honor, Vietnam, and the War at Home

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Notes Introduction 1. Edward F. Murphy, Korean War Heroes (Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press: 1992), 1. 2. B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley, Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Hero and its History (Dallas, Tex.: Verity Press: 1998), 353. 3. Lewis Sorley, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Year in Vietnam (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1999), 205. 4. Gary A. Linderer in Frank Johnson, Diary of an Airborne Ranger (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001). 5. John Smith, interview with the author. 6. Wayne County Press, 29 July 2002. 1.DowninEgypt 1. “President Diem to President Kennedy,” in Marvin E. Gettlemen et al., eds., Vietnam and America: The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War (New York: Grove Press, 1995), 163. 2. Ibid. 3. In Andrew Carroll, War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence From American War (New York: Washington Square Press, 2001), 392–393. 4. In Steven M. Gillon, The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1960 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003), 35. 5. Thomas Powers, The War at Home: Vietnam and the American People (New York: Grossman, 1973), 31. 6. Melvin Small, Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America’s Hearts and Minds (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002), 18, 85. 7. Taylor Pensoneau, Brothers Notorious: The Sheltons, Southern Illinois’ Legendary Gangsters (New Berlin, Ill.: Downstate Publications, 2002), 263. 8. Wayne County Press, 20 January 1969. 9. Ibid., 30 January 1969. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid., 8 March 1971. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid., 8 February 1971. 14. Ibid., 12 August 1964, 15 August 1964. 15. Ibid., 20 January 1969. 16. Ibid., 24 February 1969. 17. Ibid., 5 November 1964. 18. Ibid., 23 January 1969. 19. Ibid. 152 | Notes to pages 000–000 Notes to pages 8–25 20. Ibid., 24 February 1969. 21. See Jon Musgrave, Egyptian Tales of Southern Illinois (Marion: Illinois History , 2000), for an elaboration of how the region came by its unusual name. 22. Richard Powell, Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southern and Yankee in the Old Northwest (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society , 1953), 1. 23. Edwin Sparks, ed., The Lincoln Douglas Debate of 1858, Vol. I (Springfield: Illinois Historical Library, 1908), 249. 24. Rufus Babcock, ed., Forty Years of Pioneer Life: Memoirs of John Mason Peck (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1864), 37. 25. Morris Birkbeck, Notes on a Journey to America (London: Severn and Co., 1818), 119, 108. 26. Paul M. Angle, Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 72–73, XVI. 27. Baker Brownell, The Other Illinois (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1958), 14. 28. Ibid., 92. 29. Southern Illinoisan, 9 December 1956. 30. Brownell, The Other Illinois, 92. 31. In Pensoneau, Brothers Notorious, vi. 32. Ibid., vi–vii. 33. Wayne County Press, 19 August 2002. 2.WhereHaveAlltheFlowersGone? 1. Pensoneau, Brothers Notorious, 275. 2. Wayne County Press, 1 December 1949, 29 December 1949. 3. Ibid., 20 November 1969. 4. Ibid., 3 August 1964. 5. Ibid., 20 August 1964. 6. Ibid., 8 May 1967. 7. Ibid., 5 May 1967. 8. Ibid., 8 May 1967. 9. Ibid., 5 May 1967. 10. Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam Books, 1993), 195. 11. Wayne County Press, 14 October 1964. 12. Ibid., 23 July 1964. 13. Newsweek, 30 October 1967. 14. Ibid., 20 November 1967. 15. Ibid., 13 November 1967. 16. Ibid., 13 November 1967. 17. Wayne County Press, 11 May 1967. 18. Ibid., 6 November 1964. 19. Ibid., 19 January 1964. Notes to pages 000–000 | 153 Notes to pages 26–36 20. Newsweek, 24 April 1967. 21. Wayne County Press, 18 May 1967. 22. Ibid., 20 May 1967. 3.APartySchool 1. Betty Mitchell, Delyte Morris of SIU (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988). 2. Ibid., 13. 3. Brownell, The Other Illinois, 235, 237. 4. Mitchell, Delyte Morris of SIU, 24. 5. Time, 1964. 6. Newsweek, 12 June 1967. 7. Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 1968. 8. Daily Egyptian, 16 October 1998. 9. Ibid., 31 October 1970. 10. Small, Antiwarriors. 11. Ibid., 86. 12. Brian K. Clurdy, The Management of Dissent: Responses to the Post Kent State Protests at Seven Public Universities in Illinois (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002), 48. 13. Robbie Lieberman and David Cochrum, “There’s Something Happening Here: 1960s Student Protest of Southern Illinois University Carbondale,” paper presented at the Fourteenth...