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Any veteran who has shared his or her story with the Veterans History Project has a take on what their time in service during war meant to them. Although for most, the experience itself was largely positive, there was also an inevitable readjustment to civilian and peacetime life that for some is still an ongoing process. Please note: page numbers refer to the pages in "Voices of War" on which the veteran appears.
Rhona Prescott served in the U.S. Army from December 1961 to May 1968, the last year of her hitch spent in Vietnam. But in looking back at her experience, during which her best friend was killed in the crash of a plane that Rhona would have been on, she realized that this was no ordinary time for her.
(featured on pages 314-317)
“There is not enough gold in Fort Knox to make me do it again, but I am glad I did it.”
– Nathaniel Raley
"...We were our own band of brothers... we were alone"
Senator Max Cleland's story
(pages 293-294, 313)
"I didn't want to be in Germany when there was a war going on in Vietnam."
Senator Chuck Hagel's story
(page 298)
"This was such a bold step..."
Violet Hill Askins Gordon's story
(pages 297-298)
"We ran out of bandages ... and had to use the Stars & Stripes newspaper ..."
Jeanne Urbin Markle's story
(page 304)
"I believe I was becoming experienced too fast in the ways of the war..."
Paul Alexander Steppe, Jr.'s story
(pages 309-310)
"Above all, I prayed that I would live to make you happy."
Tracy A. Sugarman's story
(pages 310-311)
"...you don't turn your back on [a friend] when the going gets a little nasty..."
Ronald Winter's story
(pages 312-313)
