The War in Vietnam : the view from a Southern community :
Brownsville, Haywood county, Tennessee
Voogt, J.
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Voogt, J. (2005, May 24). The War in Vietnam : the view from a Southern community :
Brownsville, Haywood county, Tennessee. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/9756
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THE WAR IN VIETNAM
THE VIEW FROM A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY
BROWNSVILLE, HAYWOOD COUNTY, TENNESSEE
THE WAR IN VIETNAM
THE VIEW FROM A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY
BROWNSVILLE, HAYWOOD COUNTY, TENNESSEEProefschrift ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van de Rector Magnificus Dr. D. D. Breimer,
hoogleraar in de faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen en die der Geneeskunde, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties
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Promotor Prof. Dr. Th. L. D’haen Co-Promotor Dr. Tj. A. Westendorp
Referent prof. Dr. J. Wayne Flynt, Auburn University, Alabama Overige Leden Prof. Dr. K. Koch
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are many people to thank for their contributions to this work. I would like to thank Austin Finn of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for his friendship and for opening up the world of English culture and literature for me. My very special thanks go to those men and women in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee, who shared their views, emotions and memories with me in a series of tape-recorded interviews. I am delighted to have an opportunity to acknowledge my friendship with Ray and Kathryn Dixon; Benny and Gail Hopper; Tommy and Martha Hooper; Solon and Marceline Jacocks; Margaret Kizer and her late husband, Jerry; Pat and Ann Mann; Bob and Cheryl Moses; George and Amy Moss; John and Hazel Redding; David and Bess Hooper; Tommy and Pam Russell; and Fox and Christy Smith. I am also grateful for the hospitality extended to my family over a prolonged period of time, while I was doing research in the area.
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for her unwavering support of my project. I would like to thank the people too numerous to mention who demonstrated how amply the South deserves its reputation for hospitality. I am indebted to County Executive Franklin Smith. I thank Ramona Stevenson at the Elma Ross library in Brownsville. I also thank the library staff at Jefferson State Community College, Birmingham, Alabama; the library staff at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, and the library staff of the University of Tennessee at Martin. Special thanks go to Floyce Adams for her invaluable help in typing up the transcripts. I have wonderful memories of conversations with Dr. David Matchen at Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, Alabama. I thank the faculty members and my students at Jefferson State Community College for sharing their thoughts and feelings with me; I learnt a great deal from them about the South in the course of one academic year. I am indebted to Dr. Charles Crawford of the Oral History Research Office at the University of Memphis for reading an early draft of the manuscript and for his support. I am especially grateful to Dr. J. Wayne Flynt at Auburn University for a number of enlightening conversations; I would also like to thank him for reading the manuscript. I am particularly obligated to the Netherlands Commission for Educational Exchange in Amsterdam for the Fulbright grants received. They made it possible for me to follow the memorable words of advice spoken by a former presidential candidate to “go west”, and by so doing discover a whole new world.
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