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🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | The American History Podcast bonus episode. |
0:08.5 | Welcome to the American History Podcast. |
0:15.3 | Hosted by Sean Worswick. |
0:27.0 | Thank you. John Worswick. Okay, so welcome back, and what a show we've got for you today. |
0:32.0 | I'm pleased to be joined on the show by Vietnam veteran and author William V. Taylor. |
0:37.5 | Now, Bill earned three Purple Hearts, and his unit earned two presidential citations. |
0:42.2 | And just for reference, units that got this or that received this sort of award are some units |
0:47.2 | in the Marine Corps that participated in things like the Battle of Tarawa and Iwojima in World |
0:52.8 | War II. |
0:53.8 | So you don't get those awards as a unit for just showing up and looking cute or sitting |
0:58.6 | in the rear with the gear. |
1:00.5 | You were out on the tip of the sphere. |
1:02.6 | Furthermore, Bill participated in 25 combat operations and 13 months in Vietnam. |
1:08.1 | His recently published book on Full Automatic, Surviving 13 months in Vietnam, |
1:12.4 | is what we'll be discussing today. And just so you know, this book is a bestseller on Amazon |
1:17.1 | and has been for well over 50 weeks. It also won the International Book Award. And I will have |
1:24.2 | a link in the show notes page so you can grab yourself a copy on Amazon. And believe |
1:28.4 | me, you're not going to want to put this down. You can finish this one in a weekend or so. It's a very |
1:33.8 | well-written book. And without further ado, welcome to the show, Bill. How are you doing? |
1:39.7 | I'm doing fantastic. I'm really doing well. Great, great. Well, thank you for joining us. Thank you. First, let me just thank you for writing this book. I think it's a much needed addition to the literature on war. |
1:52.0 | And on this particular war, you know, when I was in high school, it seemed like it was everywhere. |
1:58.0 | For people don't know, I graduated 1989. So like around 86 or so, it seems like it was just this blossoming of films on Vietnam, right? We had Oliver Stones, film, platoon, good morning Vietnam. I think there was one, Hamburger Hill. I think on casualties of war, there's just a whole bunch of them. |
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