nonfiction authors about their latest work. host: linda, cofounder and co- organizer of the women s march, co-author of this incredible new book together we rise. behind the scenes of the protest heard around the world. on january 21 it will be the year anniversary of the largest protest in america history. how do you get involved? take us back to the moment when he first decided that you could do this to i was just like everybody else that had a couple minutes to spare after the november election in 2016 and was sitting online just like everyone else transfigure out and analyze why are we in the situation and i started seeing posts of his events about this million women march and i was like my first instinct was to be like there is already a million women martin and was organized by black women in 1997 but i digress and i started going into the actual pages to see the commentary and what conversations were having and i actually said i made a comment in there and said i hop
of veterans were used as part of the of morality play they had gotten to tell their story the trauma as great victories and then what happened to them the reason i chose the years 67 but the years before that were ramping up that was of big your but in some ways to the quintessential of that war with their lives in open dreams were city slickers from cleveland and migrant farm workers and young african americans then sharecroppers from the south in his remarks angeles with a hodgepodge of one end to be at the time. that military units were all drafted, the same day in march finding of a movie shown men were in the infantry platoon and i was able to get the company very well. to understand who they were of people so charlie company in the the bigger than that you don t have a representative sample of what was to be a soldier in vietnam 1967 yet most of these soldiers had ever been in battle before trading in the middle of kansas there is no all over the ground but of course,
combat, women and gender in the vietnam era. i wanted to write this book because as i read the works that have already been written about the vietnam war and as i read contemporary accounts of the war, the presidential documents, media coverage of the war, memoirs, those sort of things, i realized that women themselves were absent from these stories. the ideas about women and gender were central so for example, the ways in which an american president or policymaker referred to vietnam as she. the american man that is going out to bring democracy and spread american foreign-policy. all of these issues were tied into gender so no one knew what the vietnam story would look like if we put women and is gendered ideas at the center of the story. they are at the star the start e vietnam war and maybe 1% of them were women. they also served the next biggest number in the army corps is the only has about 800 american women that served in vietnam over the course of the military presenc
part of the of morality play they had gotten to tell their story the trauma as great victories and then what happened to them the reason i chose the years 67 but the years before that were ramping up that was of big your but in some ways to the quintessential of that war with their lives in open dreams were city slickers from cleveland and migrant farm workers and young african americans then sharecroppers from the south in his remarks angeles with a hodgepodge of one end to be at the time. that military units were all drafted, the same day in march finding of a movie shown men were in the infantry platoon and i was able to get the company very well. to understand who they were of people so charlie company in the the bigger than that you don t have a representative sample of what was to be a soldier in vietnam 1967 yet most of these soldiers had ever been in battle before trading in the middle of kansas there is no all over the ground but of course, in vietnam it is over 10
because as i read the works that have already been written about the vietnam war and as i read contemporary accounts of the war, the presidential documents, media coverage of the war, memoirs, those sort of things, i realized that women themselves were absent from these stories. the ideas about women and gender were central so for example, the ways in which an american president or policymaker referred to vietnam as she. the american man that is going out to bring democracy and spread american foreign-policy. all of these issues were tied into gender so no one knew what the vietnam story would look like if we put women and is gendered ideas at the center of the story. they are at the star the start e vietnam war and maybe 1% of them were women. they also served the next biggest number in the army corps is the only has about 800 american women that served in vietnam over the course of the military presence from 1965 to 1972, 73 and then they also served in vietnam as civilians