UnFictional
Bloods
Being an African-American fighting in the jungles of Vietnam meant always getting the most dangerous missions, and sometimes having to save the lives of the very people who hated you.
By Katie Davis • • 28m Listen"I think of Vietnam almost every day. I don’t know exactly what it is that triggers it... but it may be something that I may see walking down the street, a feeling, a smell, a sight... Maybe it's because at that time, being a 19-year-old kid, that Vietnam was the biggest event that had happened to my life."
Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War,’ the seminal oral history of African American soldiers, which was published in 1984. The same year, this radio documentary was produced, featuring some of the men from the book. Even though this piece is over 25 years old it hasn't lost any of its emotion or power.
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Wallace Terry with a helicopter gunner, South Vietnam, 1967
All images courtesy of Janice Terry and the Wallace Terry archive