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We were the children of the 1950s and John F. Kennedy’s young stalwarts of the early 1960s. He told the world that Americans would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship” in the defense of freedom. We were the down payment on that costly contract, but the man who signed it was not there when we fulfilled his promise. John F. Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, and in time we came by the thousands to fill those slopes with our white marble markers and to ask on the murmur of the wind if that was truly the future he had envisioned for us.

We were Soldiers Once ... and Young
by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, USA (Ret.)
and Joseph L. Galloway

Winter, 2008

Monday & Wednesday 5:00 to 6:15

Girvetz Hall Room 1004

Tentative Class Schedule

(subject to change without notice)

M Jan 7 Introduction - Prof. Hecht

W Jan 9 Wilson Hubbell - Part 1

M Jan 14 Wilson Hubbell - Part 2

W Jan 16 Military history of Vietnam

M Jan 21 MLK Holiday

W Jan 23 Vietnam War Culture - film, music, etc.

M Jan 28 movie - “A Face of War” / Jim Nolan

W Jan 30 Jim Nolan - The War

M Feb 4 Jim Nolan - Coming home and PTSD

W Feb 6 Mid-term Examination

Sunday, 10 February - Special meeting of the course for "Once a Warrior: The Experience of Vietnam and Iraq Vets" with Dr. Bridget C. Cantrell and Chuck Dean, co-authors of Down Range: To Iraq and Back and Once a Warrior: Wired for Life, and panel composed of Wilson Hubbell, Jim Nolan, and Dr. Sharon Rapp moderated by Richard Hecht at Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara at 3:00 p.m.

M Feb 11 Continuing discussion from Sunday

W Feb 13 Valentine’s Day presentation

M Feb 18 Presidents Day Holiday

W Feb 20 John Muir

M Feb 25 Movie “Hidden Casualties”

W Feb 27 Dr. Sharon Rapp - PTSD

M Mar 3 TBA

W Mar 5 TBA

M Mar 10 TBA

W Mar 12 TBA

Contact Information

Prof. Richard D. Hecht