I just rediscovered this video on Channel Thirteen’s website of a panel we hosted here at BHS in conjunction with the exhibit In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans:
Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans
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I’m very much looking forward to reading this new book from the Palgrave Studies in Oral History series:
SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon by Carl Mirra, a soldier in the U.S. Marine Corps during the first Gulf War, currently an Associate Professor of Education at Adelphi University. This book is an oral history of soldiers, policymakers, and family members effected by the ongoing Iraq War.
I’ve met many Iraq & Afghanistan War veterans who come here to see our exhibit In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans or attend on of the discussions we’ve held in conjunction with the exhibition. And I know many Vietnam veterans who have taken it upon themselves to support the soldiers returning from Iraq/Afghanistan, giving these new veterans advice in how to readjust and cope with their experiences – advice Vietnam veterans did not receive upon their homecoming.
Pete Hamill’s Brooklyn Revisited
New York magazine’s 40th Anniversary issue has an article by Pete Hamill, who grew up in Park Slope.
And here’s an article he wrote about Brooklyn for the same magazine in 1969.
Coincidently, our Park Slope Neighborhood and Architectural History Guide launches this Thursday.
The guide includes two Walking Tours of Park Slope and accompanying audio tracks which can be downloaded from our website or through the Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast on iTunes.
Here’s one track from the audio tour where Pete Hamill’s brothers John and Denis Hamill talk about the street gangs in Park Slope in the 1950s and 60s:
John and Denis Hamill on Park Slope
(warning: contains strong language)