Interview with Earl H. Culp, November 9, 1990
Project: American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Duty in Vietnam from November 1967 to 1968 as a combat engineer platoon leader at Binh Hoa; being shelled at night; reaction of his fiance to his assignment to Vietnam; the Tet Offensive; cleaning up after Tet; friend's death by a land mine; witnessing civilian casualties; constant fear of death; R&R in Hawaii; volunteering to be a "tunnel rat"; duties of a "tunnel rat"; camraderie in his unit; being wounded by a land mine; description of NVA underground complexes; guilt about killing people; psychological trauma resulting from his experiences; alienation at Long Beach State University after discharge; Kent State shootings; life after Vietnam; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.Interview Accession
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Culp, Earl H. Interview by Sandra Gray. 09 Nov. 1990. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Culp, E.H. (1990, November 09). Interview by S. Gray. American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Culp, Earl H., interview by Sandra Gray. November 09, 1990, American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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