02899nam 22006134a 450 991078467000332120230828223626.01-282-07556-X97866120755680-253-11243-5(CKB)1000000000362311(EBL)313179(OCoLC)290477301(SSID)ssj0000285019(PQKBManifestationID)11912610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285019(PQKBWorkID)10262039(PQKB)10024365(MiAaPQ)EBC313179(MdBmJHUP)muse16559(Au-PeEL)EBL313179(CaPaEBR)ebr10191886(CaONFJC)MIL207556(EXLCZ)99100000000036231120060228d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTroubled hero[electronic resource] a Medal of Honor, Vietnam, and the war at home /Randy K. MillsBloomington, IN Indiana University Pressc20061 online resource (190 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34795-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-162) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: I'd Give My Immortal Soul for That Medal; Part I; 1. Down in Egypt; 2. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?; 3. A Party School; 4. I Felt I Was Born That Weekend; 5. Maybe I Can Help Somebody; Part II; 6. My Life Changed Forever; 7. They Stood Alone; 8. Just a Damn Piece of Metal; 9. Back in the World; Appendixes; Notes; Note on Sources; Bibliography; IndexBorn in rural Illinois, Ken Kays was a country boy who flunked out of college and wound up serving as a medic in the Vietnam War. On May 7, 1970, after only 17 days in Vietnam and one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic found himself in a ferocious battle. As a conscientious objector, Kays did not carry any weapons, but his actions during that engagement would earn him the Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet Kays' valor came during just another unheralded fire fight near the end of a long anMedal of HonorBiographyVietnam War, 1961-1975VeteransUnited StatesBiographyPost-traumatic stress disorderPatientsUnited StatesBiographyMedal of HonorVietnam War, 1961-1975VeteransPost-traumatic stress disorderPatients959.704/37BMills Randy Keith1951-1561087MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784670003321Troubled hero3827516UNINA