Remains: non-viewable, John Sacret Young
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Remains: non-viewable, John Sacret Young
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
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Remains: non-viewable
Oclc number
52860052
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John Sacret Young
Summary
When Young's cousin Doug was killed in Vietnam, Young learned that the remains of every Vietnam casualty fell into one of two official categories: Viewable or Non-Viewable. He also discovered that such categories applied to how his New England family faced their own history. This narrative of fathers and sons, of war and remembrance, is the story of a man coming to terms with himself, with his family's past, with what he knows and will never know, and with his own future. The book traces the close-knit lives of four men in Young's family: his uncle George, his cousin Doug, his father, and the author himself. It illustrates how their seemingly tranquil existence on the Massachusetts shore is affected over the years by war, alcoholism, fading friendships and shifting memories of events gone by. --From publisher description
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