Combat and Campus: Writing Through War

An infantrymans riveting letters from Vietnam preserved for fifty years by his family share experiences of living the war that are honest raw and graphic. A journalist and soldier with the 25th Infantry Division riding armored personnel carriers into rice paddies engaging in night time sweeps of the combat area Sgt. Peter Langlois chronicles the smells sights and sounds during some of the darkest days of the war from 1968 - 69. He would return home to a nation still protesting the war in which his younger sister Annette had walked to class behind National Guardsmen marching across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Their correspondence and her poetry offer a unique perspective of the war in Vietnam and social change happening at home. Together they share what was learned and what was lost.