Troubled hero : a Medal of Honor, Vietnam, and the war at home / Randy K. Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Randy Keith, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medal of Honor--Biography.

Medal of Honor.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--United States--Biography.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--United States--Biography.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

United States. Army--Medical personnel--Biography.

United States.

United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st--Biography.

Kays, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Michael), 1949-1991.

Kays, Kenneth M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born in rural Illinois, Ken Kays was a country boy who flunked out of college and wound up serving as a medic in the Vietnam War. On May 7, 1970, after only 17 days in Vietnam and one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic found himself in a ferocious battle. As a conscientious objector, Kays did not carry any weapons, but his actions during that engagement would earn him the Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet Kays' valor came during just another unheralded fire fight near the end of a long an

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: I'd Give My Immortal Soul for That Medal; Part I; 1. Down in Egypt; 2. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?; 3. A Party School; 4. I Felt I Was Born That Weekend; 5. Maybe I Can Help Somebody; Part II; 6. My Life Changed Forever; 7. They Stood Alone; 8. Just a Damn Piece of Metal; 9. Back in the World; Appendixes; Notes; Note on Sources; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-162) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07556-X

9786612075568

0-253-11243-5

OCLC:

290477301