"Long Binh Jail was a place so feared that American soldiers would rather face the Viet Cong than be sent there." "Known as "LBJ" or simply "The Stockade," it was officially the U.S. Army Installation Stockade in Long Binh, South Vietnam. Within its confines were Americans whose offenses ran the gamut from drug possession, insubordination, and AWOL, to assault, rape, and murder. Containing up to a thousand prisoners at a time, Long Binh jail was, in effect, the Army's own little penal colony and one sharply divided by racial tensions." "In 1968, these tensions erupted when most of its African-American prisoners took over the prison compound. The riot, which had to be put down by armed American troops using tear gas, was noted around the world as another sign of the sagging morale of U.S. forces. Noted military historian Cecil Barr Currey tells the story of Long Binh jail through the words of dozens of former guards, prisoners, and administrators. They reveal a disturbing aspect of the Vietnam War that has not been examined until now."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The infamous horror stories of the U.S. mil. prison at Long Binh, S. Vietnam, made it so feared that American soldiers preferred to face the Viet Cong rather than be sent there. This overcrowded penitentiary confined soldiers whose offenses ran the gamut from drug possession, insubordination, and AWOL, to assault, rape, and murder. In 1968, racial tensions there erupted into one of the worst prison riots in American penal history. When prisoners violently seized control of the compound, armed American troops struck back with tear gas, eventually bringing an end to the bloody insurrection. Critics pointed to it as yet another indication of the sagging morale of U.S. forces. Here is the story of Long Binh Jail through the words of former guards, prisoners, and admin.

Set in South Vietnam in 1967 or 1968 in the high security American military prison known as Long Binh Jail (L.B.J.) in the aftermath of a race riot between black and white prisoners. Black, white and Puerto Rican soldiers struggle to survive.

The stories of three of these Vietnamese who survived and eventually found their way to America are told here in stark and moving detail."--BOOK JACKET.

Is there something out there, not in the spiritual world, but the product of applied science, that can direct and influence your lifetime events and experiences? The author tells how this may have been the case in the context of his having served in a lawyer's position in the U. S. Army during the last two years of the Viet Nam conflict. It recounts his military criminal trial and general life experiences, many of which are rather bizarre, while in Long Binh Post Viet Nam. His conclusions give a greatly expanded insight to a soldier's conversational comment, Power Check, Commo Check. Hampden White is a U. S. Army Nam veteran, serving mostly as a lawyer 1970-71. He has practiced law primarily in Baton Rouge since returning from Nam, doing mostly insurance defense litigation and corporate law. White was born in 1944, age 64 at this publication. He has two married daughters, one a college professor, the other in a large national law firm.

How American Soldiers Opposed and Resisted the War in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.

During the war years of 1954–1975 between the communist government of North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam, America invaded a pledging ally of South Vietnam, thus ending what was known as the American war in Vietnam. The Second Indochina War left a lasting legacy of extreme American brutality. The armed forces, along with the prison systems, punishments, modes of attack, and physical and psychological tortures, were inconceivable. Aside from that, the Vietnamese perception of ghosts is what gave Vietnam a place in the horror section. The proper interment of bodies and religious rites are the main foundations of Vietnamese folklore. The battle, though, devastated that. According to them, the improperly and unconventionally buried bodies have a large possibility of leaving their souls in the earth, which wanders through the connected places. This idea was also manipulated later by the U.S. army as their war strategy. In addition, many of the soldiers had many eerie encounters during that period, including ghosts, strange creatures, mishaps, and more. Apart from these strange encounters, what people have endured at the hands of humans has been intolerable, such as war strategies involving booby traps, tunnels, torture in prisons, and so on.