Bringing It All Back Home (38 page)

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MEMOIRS AND FICTION BY VETERANS INTERVIEWED FOR THIS BOOK

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ORAL HISTORY, THEORY

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the following individuals for taking the time to speak with me about this project, whether officially as interviewees or in other capacities. These people generously gave me hours of their time and energy. Many are veterans, some are not. Several have passed away in the years it took to complete this project. Without them this book simply would not exist: Carol S. Aljets, Barbara Allier, Frank Arce, James Bacolo, Mauro Bacolo, Barry Berger, James Best, Jason Bianco, Edward Blanco, Louis H. Blumengarten, Larry Boyken, James Bradley, Thomas Brinson, Thomas Brooks, Henry Burke, Kevin Burns, Don Buzney, Victor Candelaria, John Canney, Frank Careccia, Larry Cary, Joe Casal, Lucylee Chiles, Michael Chirieleison, Arthur Chitty, James Clark, Grant Coates, Anthony Cochran, Stuart Cohen, Lee Covino, Anthony D'Aleo, Ken Dalton, Ed Daniels, Rudolf Dent, Frank DeSantis, Paul DeSaro, Martin V. D'Giff, Thomas Dimitry, John Di Sanza, Carl Dix, Isaac Dweck, Charles Eaddy, Bernard Edelman, Richard Eggers, Emile Ercolino, Francisco Esquilin, Gerald Faulk, Joseph Ferrandino, Paula Fichtner, Barry Fingerhut, Israel Fishman, Sandy Fishman and Elisa Andrews, John Flanagan, Dominick Florio, Tom Fox, Frank Freeman, Danny Friedman, Joan Furey, Jim Gabe, Robert Garguilo, Thomas J. Garvey, Bruce Geiger, Ed German, Joseph Giannini, Karen Gleeson, Tom Glenn, David Glick, Stephen M. Gluck, Mike Gold, Steven Gombas, Jose Gonzalez, Robert Gratz, Richard Green, Robert Greene, William Gribben, Wayne Griffith, Martin Grosso, Pat Gualtieri, Mike Guerin, Hector Guzman, Herman Guzman, Jerome Hall, Robert Hall, John and Denis Hamill, Thomas Harnisher, Richard Harris, William Harris, Alex Heitlinger, Allen Higgins, Samuel Himmelstein, Michael Hipscher, Boyce Holt, Benjamin Homes, Mike Horan, Matthew Iocavelli, Joanne Izzo, William Jacob, Ron Jensen, Peter Katopes, Kenneth Katta, Milton Katz, Joseph Kearney, Ann L. Kelsey, Jack Kenigsberger, Neil Kenny, Bruce Kessler, Michael King, Rita King, Paul Knox, Jerome Krase, Walter Kudlacki, Fred LaVentua, Christopher Leach, Carmine Lengua, Hector Leon, Gary Levine, Louieco G. Lewis, Philip Lockit, Joseph M. Logan, Fred Louis, Peter Mahoney, Andrew Manicone, Louis Marcello, James J. Markson, Nancy Martin, Peter Martin, Wade Martin, Luigi Masu, Nick L. Mazzella, Sue McAnanama, William A. McCloud, Vince McGowan, Jim McKee, James McMillan, Brian J. McPadden, Peter Meloro, Ray Mesk, Denney Meyer, Victoria Miano, Joy Molfetto, Edward Molineaux, Patrick Mooney, Joel Murov, Kathy Mussen, Manny Napolitano, Stephen Neftleberg, Tin Nguyen, Joseph Nigro, Yuri Niyazov, Lana Noone, Bridget Nowicki, Denis O'Keefe, Robert Oliva, Laurence Olivo, Paul O'Neill, Susan O'Neill, Pippin Parker, Alexander Pas, David Pereplyotchik, Glenn Petersen, Joseph Piazza, Andrew Pietri, Anthony Pinkard, John Platania, Ronald Powers, Robert Ptachik, Angel Ramirez, Juan Ramos, Dorothy Ratigan, Daniel Rice, Ernesto C. Rigby, John Rinaldi, Ray Robertson, Joseph M. Rup Jr., Andy Salimury, Joe Sanchez Picon, Robert Santos, John Sartorius, John Scarimbolo, Auggie Scarinio, William Schank, Barry Schechter, Susan Schnall, James Schrang, Leonard Sciascia, Paul Sheridan, Richard Sheridan, Barbara M. Simmons, Gerald Singer, Albert Singerman, Philip Skolnick, John Slater, Ron Sleeis, Jay Small, Carrie Spearman, Jack Squeo, Mary Beth Stack, William D. Stack Jr., Amadeo Stephanelli, Christopher Strunk, Herbert Sweat, Ralph Testa, Rudy Thompson, Pastor Toro, Kristin Tsafos, Kristina Vaskys, Lucian Vecchio, Anthony Velez, Carlos Velez, Anthony Wallace, Allen E. Walters, Ed White, Arnold Willence, Van Wilson, David Woodrow, and Michael Yates.

The following individuals, who were at one time students of mine, collected interviews and transcribed and offered assistance, for which I am grateful: Christine Sciascia, Eric Smith, Suella Vainstein, Matthew Gherman, Ruben Valencia, Claire Heitlinger, Nicole Lebenson, Rebecca McIvor, David Imparato, Yakov Herman, Linda Schwartz, Brant Levin, Kemile Jackson, Ancil Richardson, and Nathan Wilson.

I would like to thank the following colleagues for their constant encouragement and help: Alan Brinkley, Mike Foley, Robert David Johnson, Andy Meyer, Steven Remy, and David Troyansky.

Julie McGarvey and Jennifer Farbar provided invaluable editorial and intellectual support.

Then there are those whose contributions can't be categorized: Adriana and Gabriella Napoli, Dorothy Napoli, Michael and Judy Schwartz, Joan and Larry Adelman, Stephanie Sargent and Ralph Bernstein, Philip Shaw, Peter Schilling, James Rich, Alice Kenny, and Nikki Giannini.

Gay Culverhouse was instrumental in making this book possible.

The acknowledgments for this work would be incomplete without the name of the late professor James Shenton of Columbia University. Jim, a World War II combat medic, was my teacher and mentor. “War never leaves you,” he once said to me. “It lives in your bones.”

 

A Note About the Author

Philip F. Napoli is an assistant professor of history at Brooklyn College, where he also directs the Vietnam Oral History Project. He conducted many of the interviews included in Tom Brokaw's
The Greatest Generation
. He lives in New York City.

 

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Napoli, Philip F., 1960–

Bringing it all back home: an oral history of New York City's Vietnam veterans / Philip F. Napoli. — 1st ed.

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ISBN 978-0-8090-7318-4 (hbk.: alk. paper)

1.  Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Veterans—New York (State)—New York—Interviews.   2.  Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Personal narratives, American.   3.  Vietnam War, 1961–1975—New York (State)—New York.   4.  New York (N.Y.)—Biography   I.  Title.   II.  Title: An oral history of New York City's Vietnam veterans.

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