In Memory, Jan H. Vanderbie, 27 May 2008
(Former US AID Province Representative, Republic of Vietnam)
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FROM OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS AND OTHER SOURCES
Tet 1969 at Cu Chi Combat Base
SITES WITH COMPREHENSIVE VIETNAM CASUALTY INFORMATION
Vietnam War Dead Database: original VietWar download site
No Quarter (http://www.no-quarter.org): searchable by a variety of a parameters; this database is sometimes off-line.
The Coffelt Database: unit ID to company level for most records.
Selected Poems
OR SEE (.PDF): Vietnam (Poetry Manuscript)
John
Swensson, Dean of Language Arts at De Anza College, has included some of my poetry on his
Vietnam
Conflict Website
VIETNAM POETRY Publication Credits
Times Record News, Wichita Falls Online Edition, November 11, 1998; The Names
Veteran’s Day insert: Downtowner, Cincinnati Ohio, November 10, 1998: Take a Number; Last Letter
Second Front Page, feature article At War With Words, The Harrison Press, April 8, 1998: Blue-Eyed Daddy; Take a Number; Lies That Soldiers Tell; Lewis B. Puller, Jr., Age 48, Dies By His Own Hand: A Casualty of the War
AWARDS
FY 1998 Individual Artist’s Fellowship: $5,000 -
Creative Writing, Ohio Arts Council; poetry on the Vietnam War.
Michael P. (M-60) Kelley, Vietnam veteran
artist and writer (Where We Were In Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide to
the Firebases, Military Installations, and Navy Vessels of the Vietnam
War, Hellgate Press), wrote: “In
my judgment, Connie is also without question among the very best poets
to have emerged from the Vietnam experience.”
FIRST
PRIZE: Everything is not Enough (1997) D.A. Levy Chapbook Award
Winner 1996 Chapbook designed & published by THIS: a serial review.
Cincinnati, Ohio
THIRD PRIZE: the Greater Cincinnati Writers League (GCWL)
(1996) Poetry.
VIETNAM PRESENTATIONS
Milford-Miami Township Branch, Clermont County Public Library (November 2007) Public reading.
National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center (July 2006) Public reading at the Freedom
of Expression program
Vietnam Slide Shows: University of Cincinnati, February 2000: Shriner's, November 2002.
Public poetry reading on Memorial Day, 1999, at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Featured poet at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Country for the opening of Vietnam Revisited, a photo exhibit by former Army photographer, Ken Williamson, November 1998.
Featured poet on Night Music, March 16, 1997 - WNKU (Public Radio from Northern Kentucky University)
Vietnam Slide Show - Counterparts Reunion - August 1995.
Poetry readings at the Poet Warriors Memorial Day Weekend Program, held at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington, D.C. May 1995.
Vietnam Slide Show - Khe Sanh Veterans Reunion - July 1994.
Poetry readings at the Memorial Day Writer’s Project, Veteran’s Day Weekend Program, held at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Washington, D.C. November 1994.
My journal and memory, such as they are, Vietnam, April 1994: