Authors

Jim Van Straten

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A new book by Jim Van Straten ’55 is drawn from 352 letters he wrote to his wife, Pat, while deployed in Vietnam, 1966-67. Van Straten had been assigned as the senior medical advisor to the army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the demilitarized zone. This excerpt from “A Different Face of War: Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam” (2015) includes Van Straten’s encounter in Saigon with an old St. Norbert classmate and friend, then Maj. Joe Lutz ’55.

Publication Date

Spring 3-14-2016

Keywords

Office of Communications, book, excerpt, Jim Van Straten, A Different Face of War

Spring 2016: A Familiar Face in “A Different Face of War”

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