Interview with David B. Kuxhaus, June 30, 1990
Project: American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project
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Childhood reading; enlisted in Army in September, 1968; basic training; AIT at Fort Polk-- Louisiana; family's reaction to his assignment to Vietnam; assigned to the First Infantry Division; night patrols; receiving a "Dear John" letter; re-enlisting and going to Hong Kong for R&R; assignment to Cam Ranh Bay; fear during combat; smoking marijuana in the field; "newbies"; meeting his brother in Da Nang; confusion in identifying the enemy; homecoming reception; adjustment to civilian life; battling alcoholism.Interview Accession
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Kuxhaus, David B. Interview by Sandra Gray. 30 Jun. 1990. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Kuxhaus, D.B. (1990, June 30). Interview by S. Gray. American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Kuxhaus, David B., interview by Sandra Gray. June 30, 1990, American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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