Jerry Lembcke

Jerry Lembcke

Jerry Lembcke is the author of nine books, including The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (NYU Press, 1998), Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal (UMass Press, 2010), and Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today (Monthly Review Press, 2021). His The Cult of the Victim Veteran: MAGA Fantasies in Lost-War America came out with Routledge in July 2023. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been a guest on several NPR programs, including "On the Media."

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U.S. Army chaplain Fr. Emil Joseph Kapaun, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured celebrating Mass from the hood of a jeep Oct. 7, 1950, in South Korea. (CNS/Courtesy U.S. Army medic Raymond Skeehan)

New book offers insight into Korean War through priest chaplain's letters

No Bullet Got Me Yet is a collection of letters written by, to and about Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest and army chaplain in the Korean War. Kapaun died at POW Camp 5 in May 1951 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in 2013.

Helicopters land men of the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, for a long range reconnaissance patrol in Vietnam Aug. 18, 1970. (Wikimedia Commons/NARA/SP4 Sal Mancusi)

Dual memoir looks back on being noncombatant 1-A-O medics in Vietnam War

Though devoid of aggrandizing war-story fare, the opening pages of James Kearney and Bill Clamurro's story is set in 1971 combat, as a wounded Kearney is offloaded into the hands of his eventual co-author, Clamurro.

Marines urinating on Taliban corpses: Putting words to the picture

Medicating and medicalizing dissent

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