Chris' Literary Works

  

From Blue to a Gold Star

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With a young family and bright career future ahead of him, First Lieutenant Clarence R. Green meets his destiny in a trench somewhere in France during the First World War.

From 100 years ago, local newspaper articles, his letters home and family photos tell Clarence's story.

A story of heroism and self-sacrifice.

A story of a small Iowa town's courage amid the anguish wrought by war.

Read the First-Person accounts that changed a family and a community.

Letters Home: Viet Nam 1964

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Letters Home: Vietnam 1964 is framed around an Army Corpsman’s letters home from the nascent Vietnam War. Little has been written about the U.S. Army Medics doing MEDCAP work in Vietnam. This story of medical teams in the Delta region is told through photos, vignettes, and recollections. 

LETTERS HOME’s story unfolds some months before the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. A Medical Specialist, part of an Army Medical Civic Action Program team (MEDCAP), delivered medical services to scores of villages and hamlets south of Saigon, in the Delta. The author, Medical Corpsman and French Interpreter, narrates what the war, at the beginning of America’s involvement, was like for him.

“With stethoscopes hanging around our necks and with jars of pills and ointments in our portable drug store, we diagnosed, treated and dispensed medicines to rural folks, families, children, even VC.

"To villagers, we were the Bac Si Mỹ, the American Doctors.”

"A Civil War Narrative:

Journals, Letters and Verse of William Clark Newlon"

 Presented in PDF with photos, maps and footnoted annotation 

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William Clark Newlon chronicles his Civil War experience in two journals written between April 1861 and August 1863. Infantry soldier Will Newlon describes his move west from Iowa through Missouri, and then down to Tennessee. Between these events, Will pens the tedium and daily suffering of being a Civil War soldier, the drilling and parades, the cooking and camp making, the cold and the rain, the battles and the loneliness.