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Writer John Balaban Discusses His Vietnam Memoir.

Writer John Balaban. Balaban was one of the very few Vietnam-era conscientious objectors who volunteered to go to Vietnam. Once there, he was overwhelmed with the paradoxes of the war...among other things, he found himself picking up a gun, in order to defend a hospital from attack. His memoir of that time, called "Heaven's Face: A Moral Witness in Vietnam" has just been published by Poseidon Press. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

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Other segments from the episode on August 5, 1991

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, August 5, 1991: Interview with John Balaban; Interview with Gus Lee; Commentary on women and magazines.

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