The 2008
Charles B. Burdick Memorial Military History Symposium takes place on
Wednesday, April 30, at the Engineering Auditorium (ENG 189) at
Panelists: Al Conetto, who served for five
months in Vietnam during 1965 as a First Lieutenant with both the First Cavalry
Division and the 173rd Airborne Bridage. In 1967, he returned as a
Captain in the First Cavalry for 12 months, in the field, in logistics and in
intelligence. He became the briefing officer to the commander of the
division. Mr. Conetto has just completed a manuscript for a book on
Operation Hump, the first major American battle with the Vietcong, in which he
fought.
Quang
X. Pham, who
is the son of the late Hoa Pham, a South Vietnamese fighter pilot who rescued
his family in the American evacuation of April, 1975, but stayed behind because
of A Sense of Duty -- the title
of his book published by Ballantine Books in 2005 (subtitle: My Father -- My American Journey).
Lt. Col. Hoa Pham spent twelve years in the reeducation camp prisons in
Jerry
Underdal, who joined International Voluntary
Services (IVS), a private organization supporting development in
Moderator:
Larry Engelmann,
Emeritus Professor in the History Dept. at SJSU, and author of Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of
South Vietnam published by Oxford University Press in 1990.
Welcoming
remarks: Jonathan Roth, chair of the History Dept. at SJSU. For further
information contact Dr. Roth at 408-924-5505 or jonathanroth@sjsu.edu
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A booksigning by Mr. Pham and Mr.
Engelmann will benefit the SJSU History Dept. It is organized by Jean
Libby, editor of VietAm Review and proprietor of Internet Bookselling in Palo Alto, CA.
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