Karl Marlantes: Why I Chose to Go to Vietnam
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in the late 1960s Karl Marlantes had a decision to make. He could serve in a war that he saw as unjust, desert to Algeria or Sweden, or stay at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship as his high school friends fought and died in Vietnam. Marlantes decided to serve. But why?
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