Truxal Library Exhibit: In Service to a Nation, The Veteran Legacy
Welcome to the Truxal Library guide in honor of Veteran's Appreciation Month at AACC! This guide highlights a selection of the library materials related to the veteran experience. Please enjoy browsing this guide, and know that if you are interested in researching further, library reference staff are available to help via the 'get help' chat and contact info featured on this guide. If you are on campus, please visit the second floor of the library to see the accompanying exhibit. Please also visit this schedule of exciting events occurring throughout November at AACC.
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Books
Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought their Mission Home. –by Call Number: UB363 .K66 2015ISBN: 9781451677300Publication Date: 2015-10-20
Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781611685503Publication Date: 2014-03-01
Forever a Soldier: unforgettable stories of wartime service –by Call Number: U52 .F66 2005ISBN: 9780792241898Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Fortunate Son: The autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. –by Call Number: DS559.73.U6 P85 1991ISBN: 9780802112187Publication Date: 1991-06-01
The Girls Come Marching Home: stories of women warriors returning from the war in Iraq –by Call Number: DS79.76 .H653 2009ISBN: 9780811705165Publication Date: 2009-06-23
Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace. –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781978802810Publication Date: 2018-12-17
The Long Walk: a story of war and the life that follows –by Call Number: DS79.766 .C37 A3 2012ISBN: 9780385536202Publication Date: 2012-07-10
Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War –by Call Number: U53 .H67 M37ISBN: 9780803232440Publication Date: 2005-02-01
Memwars –by Call Number: DS79.766 .R63 A3 2018ISBN: 9781941516355Publication Date: 2018-10-10The author was a student at Anne Arundel Community College.
Plenty of Time When We Get Home –by Call Number: DS79.767 .V48 W55 2015ISBN: 9780393350623Publication Date: 2015-02-02
Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors. –by Call Number: ND1329 .B865 A4 2017ISBN: 9780804189767Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Rise: a soldier, a dream, and a promise kept –by Call Number: DS371.43 .R63 2014ISBN: 9780544365605Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Shooting ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and their Journey back from War. –by Call Number: DS371.413 .B74 2017ISBN: 9780399562549Publication Date: 2017-08-22
Shrapnel in the Heart –by Call Number: DS559.83.W18 P35ISBN: 9780394759883Publication Date: 1988-11-05
Soldier Girls: the battles of three women at home and at war –by Call Number: UB418 .W65 T56 2014ISBN: 9781451668100Publication Date: 2014-08-05
The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and WWI's most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home First edition. –by Call Number: D675 .W2 O46 2018ISBN: 9780802128331Publication Date: 2018-05-22
eBooks
The Bridges of Vietnam: from the journals of U.S. Marine intelligence officer –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781574411232Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Embedded: a Marine Corps adviser inside the Iraqi army –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781612514062Publication Date: 2013-08-10
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780817321017Publication Date: 2021-08-10
God Willing: My Wild Ride with the New Iraqi Army –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781597973489Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Ground Pounder: A Marine's Journey through South Vietnam, 1968-1969 –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781574414608Publication Date: 2012-05-01
Heavy Metal: A Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781597973373Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Kentucky Maverick: The Life and Adventures of Colonel George M. Chinn –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780813161075Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Left for Dead: a second life after Vietnam –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780816697540Publication Date: 2005
Marching As to War: personal narratives of African American women's experiences in the gulf wars –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780761863441Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Outside the Wire: American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780813934129Publication Date: 2013-04-15
Phantom in the Sky A Marine's Back-Seat View of the Vietnam War –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781574417623Publication Date: 2019
Ruff's War: a Navy nurse on the frontline in Iraq –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781612513812Publication Date: 2013-12-15
Semper Fi the story of a Vietnam era Marine –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9789888167609Publication Date: 2012
Tanks on the Beaches: a Marine tanker in the Pacific war –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781603447317Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Through Veterans' Eyes: the Iraq and Afghanistan experience –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781597974868Publication Date: 2010-07-01
Too Strong to Be Broken: The Life of Edward J. Driving Hawk –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781496223494Publication Date: 2020-09-01
Unsung Valor: A GI's Story of World War II –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781621038498Publication Date: 2012-10-22
Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780821445624Publication Date: 2016-04-25
War Flower: My Life after Iraq –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781640121836Publication Date: 2019-03-01
When Janey Comes Marching Home: portraits of women combat veterans –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780807898338Publication Date: 2010-05-01
When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters, 1941-45 –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780814335581Publication Date: 2007-10-16
Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780812202977Publication Date: 2010-08-03
Videos
- Once a MarineFirst-time documentarian Stephen Canty, a former Corporal in 1st Battalion, Sixth Marines experienced constant brushes with death during Operation Moshtarak in Marjah, Afghanistan. His unit, Charlie Company, was engaged in some of the heaviest fighting during one of the largest operations of the conflict in Afghanistan. The Marines, some of whom joined the service as young as seventeen, soon became accustomed to both the adrenaline rush and the constant anxiety of combat in hostile territory, along with the imminent strangeness of a world where it seemed that anyone could die at any time.
- The Forgotten VeteransTwenty-four years ago, the longest, most divisive war in U.S. history finally came to an end. A decade ago, 60 Minutes' Morley Safer focused on some forgotten veterans of the Vietnam War. At that point, most Americans were oblivious to the fact that 10,000 women, mostly nurses, served in Vietnam.
- Iraq War experience. Capt. Pam RoarkPam Roark: Iraq War Nurse is a short documentary about Captain Pam Roark - a Navy nurse whose life-long passion and commitment resulted in an exciting story of female military leadership.
- Women in the military. Alene B. Duerk the first woman admiralThis short films tells the story of Alene B. Duerk, the first woman to earn the rank of Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Admiral Duerk served in World War II and during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. After retiring, she went on to deliver meals to the elderly before passing away in her late 90s.
- The war to end all wars and its American veteransRelying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen and expert commentary from scholars, this documentary tells the story of World War I from the American perspective: its ace pilots, mine-laying sailors, heroic doughboys, Harlem Hell Fights, and courageous nurses.
- Duty in Iraq one woman's story (DVD-12244)Sgt. Amber Phillips, 320th MP Battalion, US Army Reserve, reviews her tour of duty in Iraq and comments on the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal involving the abusive treatment of Iraqi prisoners. Includes interviews with members of Sgt. Phillips' family and with officers of her unit.
Webpages
- Veterans DayThe Veterans Day National Ceremony is held each year on November 11th at Arlington National Cemetery . The ceremony commences precisely at 11:00 a.m. with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and continues inside the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by Veterans’ organizations and remarks from dignitaries. The ceremony is intended to honor and thank all who served in the United States Armed Forces.
The theme for Veterans Day 2024 is “A Legacy of Loyalty and Service”. - Military/Veteran Resource CenterServing those who serve our country is a mission we take seriously.
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