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Against the War
A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
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by Roland Menge
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First Sentence
"As he drove across the Wabasha Street Bridge on Friday, April 7, 1967, Thomas Steward scanned the gleaming water of the Mississippi River to see if the junior varsity crew was on its way to the boat house. He thought he saw a glint of oars—about a mile upstream, below the tall span of the High Bridge. But a news bulletin on the car radio drew his attention from the river."
Table of Contents
PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT.
1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club
2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war
3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task
4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft
5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two
6. Brandt struggles to accommodate to Mary Kass’s cultural interests
7. Brandt leaves Mary behind to avoid an audience discussion
8. Mary goes after Matt; they come upon Morris in uniform
9. Brandt rescues Morris in a fight with an antiwar demonstrator
10. Steward gets some heartfelt advice from Barbara Carpenter
11. Steward visits his draft board to ask about his status
12. Steward bores Mary’s sister, Ellen; she winds up with Morris
13. Matt and Mary discuss their relationship and make a commitment
14. VISTA trainee Brandt learns about social problems, meets Dennis Kelly
15. Steward starts Air Force ROTC camp with roommate Orin Brown
16. Steward gives the Air Force camp his sincere best effort
17. Steward “orientates” with Air Force social worker Gary Hansard
18. Brandt arrives at his assigned VISTA worksite in Crabtree, Kentucky
19. Brandt meets his boss, Fletcher Bourne, and gets shown around
20. Brandt talks to Bourne and stays overnight at Bourne’s house
21. Brandt moves in with Fletcher and his son Bumper
22. Steward starts feeling out of place in the Air Force
23. Steward races Jim Morris in an inter-base track meet
24. Steward quits the Air Force program, gets accepted to VISTA
25. Morris, with Ellen, visits Scotts Bluff, site on Oregon trail
26. Morris and Ellen share a romantic dinner in Council Bluffs
27. Morris and Ellen struggle through an awkward goodbye
28. Morris and his mother re-visit a scene from their past
29. Morris looks through his father’s wartime letters to his mother
30. Mary tries to concoct a reason to visit Matt
31. Brandt interrupts his new duties to arrange for Mary’s visit
32. Brandt, Kelly, and Harris hold their first “dog cadre” meeting
33. Steward arrives in Dulatown to replace departing VISTA Stan Yeshe
34. Steward bids Yeshe goodbye and ventures out into the community
35. Brandt picks up Mary Kass for her three-day visit
36. Matt and Mary sleep together without sex, travel to Bourne’s
37. Matt and Mary listen as Hattie Beecher defends Appalachian traditions
38. Matt and Mary part, professing their love for one another
39. Combat trainee Morris follows the national debate on the war
40. Morris warms to a fervent description of Air Force ideals
41. Morris, coached by Tom Pitt, overcomes a crisis of self-doubt
42. Steward charges into community work with an ideal of service
43. Steward tries to help Sammy Lane and ends up resented
44. Steward and Doug Thomasek visit a ghost town in Tennessee
45. Brandt observes a strip mine demonstration and assaults a deputy
46. Brandt spends the night in county jail with Birl Poling
47. Brandt reads an editorial by Fletcher Bourne advising caution
48. Brandt receives a lesson in labor history from Birl Poling
49. Steward travels home, contemplating changes in himself and his peers
50. Steward discovers the changes do not extend to his family
51. Brandt, also visiting home, notices the farm scene is fading
52. Matt finds Mary ready to address all obstacles to marriage
53. Former crew gathers to celebrate Matt and Mary’s engagement
54. Steward makes a move on Barbie Carpenter and gets rebuffed
55. Steward researches the options for a water coop in Dulatown
56. Steward goes around Dulatown explaining and promoting the water coop
57. Morris recommits himself to his ideals while missing Ellen Kass
58. Morris and Ellen, enroute to Mexico, hear of Tet Offensive
59. Morris and Ellen romance in Mexico as Tet reports continue
60. Morris and Ellen return; Morris is assigned to combat duty
61. Morris and Ellen separate, but Ellen makes her own arrangements
62. Harris leaves; Brandt and Kelly attend an MVs general meeting
63. Brandt and Kelly attend a lecture by Father Dan Riley
64. Brandt and Kelly re-start the dog cadre with a new direction
65. Brandt argues with Fletcher and strikes out on his own
66. Steward has a disappointing show for his water coop meeting
67. Coop meeting reconvenes with addition of Church of God people
68. Steward reflects on the outcome of the water coop meeting
69. Steward encounters skepticism and exclusion at his second coop meeting
70. Steward learns of the assassination of civil rights leader King
71. Steward drives up to Porcupine to talk with Doug Thomasek
72. Morris accepts Ellen in his life as world unrest continues
73. Morris follows the war while growing ever fonder of Ellen
74. Morris, in isolation training, hears about the “inner home” concept
75. Steward, O’Rourke, and Morris re-unite for Matt and Mary’s wedding
76. Morris and his mother talk about Ellen Kass and marriage
77. Morris and Ellen exchange wedding vows in a roadside chapel
78. Steward and his father Joe visit the old neighborhood together
79. Steward stops at the boat club and runs into O’Rourke
80. Steward listens as his father cautions him about his plans
81. Steward and O’Rourke hit the road to hitch to Chicago
82. Steward and O’Rourke travel through Chicago to Rogers Park
83. Steward and O’Rourke find food for thought in Patrick’s apartment
84. Steward and O’Rourke talk on a roof top in Indiana
85. Steward’s trip ends with an order to report for induction
86. O’Rourke begins as a volunteer medic, runs into Mark Chambers
87. O’Rourke works in a rural clinic for migrant farm workers
88. Matt and Mary settle into their new life in Kentucky
89. Brandt and Kelly attend a planning meeting in Simers Branch
90. Brandt and Kelly stop to see Birl Poling in Edinburg
91. MVs and Bourne attend the demonstration at Simers Branch mine
92. Mary visits Hattie Beecher to discuss a cook book project
93. Morris and Pitt attend an intelligence briefing on the war
94. Morris, with Pitt as flight leader, flies his ninth mission
95. Morris, on his way to rescue Pitt, downs a MiG 17
96. Back at Takhli, Morris and Pitt hear Sardo is dead
97. O’Rourke returns to Chicago to find it abuzz with politics
98. O’Rourke brothers attend an “unbirthday party” for Lyndon Johnson
99. O’Rourke brothers and friends join the demonstration in Grant Park
100. O’Rourke group, fleeing tear gas, winds up in SCLC march
101. O’Rourke runs into Barbara Carpenter at a parkside clinic
102. Steward prepares his statement to file as a conscientious objector
103. Steward considers whether to object to the “Vietnam war only”
104. Steward completes and mails in his claim of conscientious objection
105. Steward visits Doug Thomasek to show him his CO statement
106. Matt and Mary discuss Steward’s statement and their MV projects
107. Brandt drives over the mountains to visit Fr. Dan Riley
108. Brandt and Fr. Dan discuss political change and “sobering clarity”
109. Brandt and Fr. Dan watch a program on national discord
110. Brandt returns to find growing political tension in Lecher County
111. MVs gather for election returns as rumors spread about Poling
112. Morris and Pitt react to the election in Takhli, Thailand
113. Morris inadvertently fires on a village killing women and children
114. Morris wards off troubled thoughts as Pitt fetes Souphana Xayaphong
115. Steward visits everyone a final time and leaves Dulatown unseen
116. Steward attends his draft board interview determined to be honest
117. Steward stops at the boat club and happens on Brandt
118. Steward balances wanderlust with a desire to connect with tradition
119. A different Ellen attends a subdued Red Garter crew party
120. Morris meets Ellen in Bangkok for a week of R&R
121. Morris and Ellen find romance in Bangkok, and “allies,” also
122. Morris spends an evening with intelligence officer Orin Brown
123. Morris re-states his concern about leaving behind a fatherless child
124. Matt and Mary start their new life in Washington D.C.
125. Brandt discovers history and “strangeness” in his new urban world
126. Mary begins her graduate program in nutrition and community health
127. Steward and O’Rourke with backpacks hit the road for Chicago
PART II: A HOUSE DIVIDED
128. Steward and O’Rourke depart from Chicago headed for Las Vegas
129. Steward and O’Rourke hear competing views as they enter California
130. Steward and O’Rourke visit Mark Chambers in his Pasadena apartment
131. Steward and O’Rourke begin as UFW organizers in East L.A.
132. Brandt attends a presentation about the counterculture and the war
133. Brandt finds a refuge in photography, seeks a documentary directness
134. Mary pursues her intellectual journey through her journal and correspondence
135. Steward and O’Rourke immerse themselves in meetings and picket lines
136. Steward hitches up the coast and meets a young woman
137. Steward tours mission with Art as draft status is resolved
138. Steward meets the woman again; her name is Kristine DeSolt
139. Steward gets stood up his first date with Kristine DeSolt
140. Amidst ambiguous war, Morris reassures Pitt that Vanna wants love
141. Pitt gets hit, returns to base in a crippled plane
142. Morris is best man as Pitt and Vanna get married
143. Steward’s first date with Kristine winds up hot and heavy
144. Steward calls Kristine and gets invited to a pool party
145. Steward learns about Kristine’s family past as the relationship deepens
146. Steward divides his attention between Cinco de Mayo and Kristine
147. Brandt balks at the rhetoric of revolution—peaceful or violent
148. Brandt gets stoned his first time in Houghten’s alley apartment
149. Matt and Mary argue after Mary discovers he got stoned
150. O’Rourke and then Steward leave their L.A. garage home behind
151. Steward establishes himself in Santa Barbara and calls his brother
152. Steward calls Kristine and bikes ten miles to see her
153. Steward negotiates the unpredictable turns of his romance with Kristine
154. Morris and Pitt hear about the “great irony of Laos”
155. Morris and Pitt fly on their ill-fated last mission together
156. Morris, reeling from Pitt’s death, writes a letter to Steward
157. Steward reads Morris’s letter and reacquaints himself with the war
158. Steward plots to maintain contact with Kris, winds up engaged
159. Brandt’s react to Steward’s engagement as their own lives diverge
160. Brandt and his father decide to re-roof the damaged barn
161. Brandt encounters familiar issues at home and the boat club
162. Brandt gets stoned in the barn to contemplate his heritage
163. Steward moves back to L.A. as his wedding date approaches
164. Steward and O’Rourke re-unite with friends from their activist past
165. Steward and Kristine exchange wedding vows over a pool-side fire
166. Newlyweds cruise out of California and break down in Arizona
167. Morris, in Takhli, Thailand, watches the Apollo 11 moon walk
168. On his 98th mission, Morris goes down in northeastern Laos
169. Morris plans and executes an escape plan that goes awry
170. Newlywed Steward’s happen upon the Brandt’s at the boat club
171. Steward’s land in West Virginia and meet the project personnel
172. Tom and Kris settle into a hillside apartment in Morgantown
173. Brandt’s travel with Darren, Gail, and Jane to Woodstock concert
174. Woodstock brings a sense of community amidst rain and shortages
175. The D.C. five decide to call themselves a “Woodstock family”
176. Steward tries to make sense of the Family Services WRO
177. Tom and Kris buy a car and ride up to Kingwood
178. Tom and Kris help with “welfare office day” in Kingwood
179. Morris is moved, meets another POW, Ellwood Erland
180. Erland, before being killed, warns of the “collection apparatus”
181. Medic Bill O’Rourke arrives in Vietnam for his tour of duty
182. O’Rourke starts as a triage medic at Chu Lai hospital
183. Steward’s seek a place to live, rent an isolated farmhouse
184. Steward looks for someone to serve as WRO president
185. Steward’s visit Clara Shoats then stop at Rachel Locke’s house
186. Steward’s feel increasingly isolated as mountain winter sets in
187. D.C. “Woodstock family” meets to go together to first Moratorium
188. Woodstock family and Kelly march together in first Moratorium parade
189. Mary reads newspaper accounts of Moratorium events across the nation
190. Arrival of new prisoner alerts Morris to try an escape
191. Morris executes his escape plan but find Pathet soldiers waiting
192. Steward’s drive to DC for second Moratorium, reunion with Brandt’s
193. Brandt group carries names of Vietnam dead in candlelight procession
194. Brandt friends march and then discuss Kerouac, drugs, and spirituality
195. Steward’s bid farewell to Brandt’s and return to face changes
196. O’Rourke corresponds with nurse Carpenter, arranges flight to see her
197. O’Rourke flies to Binh Thuy for a friendly welcome from Barb
198. O’Rourke romances with Barb, ending in a meeting of eyes
199. Steward’s move to busy Masontown as their money problems increase
200. Steward brothers and spouses go to see Easy Rider together
201. Steward brothers and spouses talk about dope and the war
202. Steward, in Minnesota, reconnects with tradition and his father’s “fragility”
203. Steward’s return to frozen pipes, get evicted from mobile home
204. Brandt and Houghten discuss the positive artistic effect of grass
205. Brandt keeps himself stoned as he evaluates his photographic project
206. Brandt sees Mary’s aura and tries to re-connect with her
207. Mary writes Ellen, researches for her upcoming trip to Cuba
208. Morris resorts to his “inner home” as Sam Neua changes
209. Morris listens as Xuan Than talks about “contention” and “egalitarianism”
210. Xuan Than describes the “French War” and the “American War”
211. Morris accepts refreshments at his last meeting with Xuan Than
212. Mary meets a Cuban woman doctor in a government clinic
213. Mary confronts a cadre, Xavier Cortez, about centralization in Cuba
214. Lonely Brandt completes his project stoned, finds solace in Gail
215. O’Rourke takes part in Orin Brown’s “medical civic action program”
216. O’Rourke sees Xuan Than being withheld treatment to extort information
217. O’Rourke and Brown discuss whether Xuan Than was treated properly
218. Steward resists self-compromise as a letter from Barb suggests “expectation”
219. Steward attends conference with Matt’s old colleagues, considers quitting project
220. Steward quits project; realizes Barb’s expectation is for “cultural breakthrough”
221. Steward’s and Brandt’s discuss “cultural change” (as Mary calls it)
222. Brandt’s visit Fr. Dan, talk about powers behind the scene
223. Brandt’s sense a “different time” as they continue to Kentucky
224. Brandt’s, with Kelly, meet Bourne and visit their former cabin
225. Re-union with Fletcher and Hattie leaves a strain of difference
226. Brandt’s leave Kentucky realizing that they can no longer fit in
227. O’Rourke resolves to make decisions about Barbara Carpenter and combat
228. O’Rourke volunteers for combat and woos Barbie at China Beach
229. Chance encounter moves O’Rourke a step further toward combat duty
230. Steward’s, driving toward California, observe cultural change and culture war
231. Steward’s read about the Kent State killings and continue west
PART III: LOOKING FOR AMERICA
232. Steward’s arrive in Los Angeles for a summer among friends
233. Morris speculates on the war as bombing approaches Sam Neua
234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village
235. Morris observes daily life in the village of Ban Hatbay
236. O’Rourke reports to 101st Airborne, is briefed by Orin Brown
237. O’Rourke begins his combat duty at Fire Support Base Ripcord
238. O’Rourke carries a wounded soldier down a dark jungle road
239. Steward tries to be supportive as Kris becomes more independent
240. Steward journals to sort out his thoughts on “cultural change”
241. Steward finds a CO assignment as Kris manages the band
242. Steward resists being controlled by the pressure to be “hip”
243. Steward’s participate in the Thunder Mountain “hippie caravan” to Bishop
244. O’Rourke hears rumors of an imminent attack on the firebase
245. O’Rourke moves out with Charlie Company to secure Hill 902
246. O’Rourke scurries to save lives as Hill 902 is attacked
247. Convalescent O’Rourke gets visited by Brown, Forland, and Barbie Carpenter
248. Steward’s leave Sunland for Tom’s new job in Winslow, Arizona
249. Steward’s get their first sense of the local Winslow scene
250. Steward’s drive to Gallup office to find “people like us”
251. “Woodstock family” drives to New Hampshire to look for land
252. “Woodstock family” discusses issues that might arise in living together
253. “Woodstock family” visits a historic commune, the Canterbury Shaker Farm
254. Steward’s host Sandy Andrews for her “open school” Indians project
255. Steward implores Kris not to invite the band to Winslow
256. As Morris is moved around, he hears tidbits of news
257. Morris, back at Ban Hatbay, looks for Mayral and Soutsada
258. Steward steps aside as the band moves into the house
259. Steward finds himself isolated and pegged as paranoid and controlling
260. After the final concert, Steward discovers Kristine with David
261. Steward travels to Phoenix to get some distance from Kris
262. O’Rourke receives a Silver Star and a combat medic badge
263. O’Rourke, his mind made up, weds Barbie in Hong Kong
264. Steward, alone again, settles into the Henry Hotel in Gallup
265. Steward and his co-workers spend Thanksgiving Day in Monument Valley
266. Brandt’s, traveling, hear Buster had heart attack, rush to Minnesota
267. Buster Brandt’s death brings reflection and a reunion with Ellen
268. Steward tries writing Kris but Mary is more substantial and loyal
269. At Minnesota Christmas, Steward finds subtle changes from the past
270. Changes in old friends lead Steward to make changes, too
271. O’Rourke heads for Khe Sanh, meets his CO Art Steward
272. No action in Dewey Canyon, but O’Rourke hears from Barb
273. O’Rourke shares beer and conversation in a bunker with Art
274. News arrives of Bumper’s injury as Brandt’s redefine their marriage
275. Brandt’s get a visit from Fletcher Bourne and amputee Bumper
276. Brandt has a bad experience on grass and decides to give it up
277. Morris realizes that Ban Hatbay is within his “inner home”
278. Morris sees Ban Hatbay bombed; tries to help Soutsada; flees
279. O’Rourke takes part in a chaotic medivac drop in Laos
280. O’Rourke is on hand as escapee Morris reaches Allied lines
281. O’Rourke goes down, shoots an enemy soldier, and is shot
282. Morris fights “dullness” as he is processed by Orin Brown
283. Morris reunites with Ellen but everything feels distant and unreal
284. Steward senses the collective search is turning toward inner consciousness
285. Steward visits Kristine in California; realizes there’s no going back
286. Steward determines to break out of his self-imposed isolation
287. Morris attends a therapy session with social worker Gary Hansard
288. Morris confronts impotence and a growing sense of war guilt
289. Morris visits his dying mother then visits Ellwood Erland’s son
290. Woodstock Family (and Kelly) move to their collective, Cranston Farm
291. New Cranston Farm owners work and scheme in happy accord
292. Mary takes charge of the sheep and assesses flock health
293. Matt finds a follower of tradition in namesake “Little Matt”
294. Steward meets new nurse Joan Shannon, old friend Doug Thomasek
295. Steward and Joan discuss “looking for America” vs. “median way”
296. Steward completes his GRE, then goes with Eddie to a squaw dance
297. Mary hears of Cuban suppression as she travels to Cuba
298. Mary observes and confronts to investigate free speech in Cuba
299. Steward and Joan talk about stars in a moonlit field
300. Steward gets a lesson in self-reliance at Thomasek’s “spread”
301. Steward spends the night alone in a tent with Joan
302. Mary accepts Cortez’s invitation to spend a day together talking
303. Mary becomes disenchanted with Cortez and Cuba’s cultural blandness
304. At Georgetown meeting, Mary finds Hattie suspects her Cuban ties
305. Mary and Gail resolve to remain “sisters” despite sharing Matt
306. Jim and Ellen fly home to Minnesota for Jane’s funeral
307. Morris reels from the Pentagon Papers and Ellen’s accusations
308. Stumphand tells Matthew: “Sometimes it just takes a strong hand”
309. Shut out, Matthew listens as Dennis describes “the ultimate development”
310. Matt barges into the house and destroys the sound equipment
311. With Ellen left behind, Morris visits Steward, not knowing why
312. At Scott’s Bluff, Morris struggles to regain the old ideal
313. Morris returns to the family house for the last time
314. Mary flies home to console Ellen as Ellen blames herself
315. Farm group meets to discuss paying off people who left
316. Darren and then Dennis announce their plans and depart
317. Steward leaves Gallup with his backpack to “look for America”
318. Steward senses a dimension of history on his “unfolding path”
319. In Sunland, Steward finds Kristine troubled and sick but determined
320. Steward decides that America is found in a vast mosaic
321. Back in Minnesota, Steward reconnects with his family and heritage
322. Steward hitches to the farm looking for a synthesis of ideas
323. Steward and Brandt get along working but talking is strained
324. Steward learns of the farm’s conflicted past and departed members
325. Steward cleans a chicken barn, gets chickens for the farm
326. Steward, unaware of financial make-up of farm, considers staying longer
327. Jane Larue offers Steward a bridge to the “primordial mind”
328. Brandt informs Steward remaining on the farm requires buying in
329. Steward realizes he found discord, not the synthesis he sought
330. Steward decides to leave and heads out with intense farewells
331. Steward hitches to Minnesota thinking the whole era is over
PART IV: BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Most important references for this novel in order of importance
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AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one as a medic. The other two of the four friends, in trying to avoid the war, become involved in the “war on poverty,” the anti-war movement, and the counterculture that arises from the anti-war movement. In the course of the four and a half years covered in the novel, the four men also meet and court the women who become their eventual spouses. These women become part of the story as they position themselves with respect to the war and the women's liberation movement. In the course of this, also, the eight young people of the novel find themselves within an ever growing phenomenon involving thousands of American youths like themselves reacting to the same far-reaching dynamics of the counterculture and the war. "Menge's book reminds me of both Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos. It's a vast panorama with enormous attention to detail." David Willson, Vietnam War Fiction, Books in Review - See more at: http://www.worldlibrary.org/wplbn0003466738-against-the-war--a-novel-of-the-vietnam-war-era-by-menge-roland.aspx?#sthash.ZGwzLVRR.dpuf
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