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Remembering What It's Really About

Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, authors of "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place", talk about keeping memory alive and the importance of listening to veterans. 

September 9, 2019

Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, authors of We've Gotta Get Out of This Place, share ways that music has helped veterans cope with the enormity of war, how to truly help veterans deal with their pain, and the importance of remembering the truth about our conflicts around the world.


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This story is part of the collection The Call to Serve: Stories of Sacrifice, War and the Way Home, which was funded by the Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation.


Writer Doug Bradley is both a Vietnam War veteran and also considers himself "part of the Woodstock generation." In “Caught in the Devil’s Bargain,” he draws parallels between the war and the concert in an effort to show that "like so much about the 1960s, the Woodstock-Vietnam dialectic is a lot more nuanced, much more convoluted… A touch of grey if you will."

Doug Bradley also shares the story of his friend, Jim Bodoh, a Certified Nurse Practitioner during the Vietnam War, and now a veteran who can still travel back to that time and place through a playlist of songs. Read "The answer may have been 'Blowin' in the Wind.' But it wasn’t easy to find."

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