Catalog number: VIS 201.0576
In part one of this two-part interview, Perry Mitchell recounts his experiences in Korea as an administrative clerk in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Born in 1943, he describes his childhood in the Brookhaven and Buckhead neighborhoods of Atlanta and remarks on Buckhead's evolution into an international business hub. He went to Duke University, he recalls, and studied English, marrying his "high school sweetheart." He attained an M.A. in English at the University of Iowa under Kurt Vonnegut in 1967 and then took a job as a copywriter in Atlanta before receiving his draft notice. He describes basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, learning a surface-to-air missile system at Fort Bliss, Texas, and becoming an administrative clerk at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He relates the family issues he experienced and his subsequent assignment to Korea, where he was stationed as battalion clerk for United States forces at the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom, South Korea. He recounts daily life and culture among the American soldiers there.
30 июн 2024
