The Hardest Year - Wagener, Carole L.; Wagener, William J.
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This memoir is based on handwritten letters, cards, and newspaper clippings sent between Carole and Bill Wagener from September 1968 to August 1969. The vernacular is accurate to that time, using words that are no longer politically correct. The letters, based on actual events, may have been compressed. Please note there was a time lapse between these letters due to a lag in the mail. Some names and identifying characteristics were changed to protect privacy, and some dialogue was recreated. The remainder of the book is based on Carole and Bill's memories to the best of their recollection over…mehr

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This memoir is based on handwritten letters, cards, and newspaper clippings sent between Carole and Bill Wagener from September 1968 to August 1969. The vernacular is accurate to that time, using words that are no longer politically correct. The letters, based on actual events, may have been compressed. Please note there was a time lapse between these letters due to a lag in the mail. Some names and identifying characteristics were changed to protect privacy, and some dialogue was recreated. The remainder of the book is based on Carole and Bill's memories to the best of their recollection over time. Because this is a war story, some chapters are very graphic and may not suit those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other trauma-related disorders. In addition, the book contains some offensive language and sexual references. Finally, there are several military terms, and various German, French, and Vietnamese phrases mentioned in this book. These terms are defined in the glossary. The Hardest Year is a true story based on over 300 handwritten letters between newlyweds Carole and Bill Wagener. Nineteen-year-old Carole marries her college sweetheart one day before he leaves Wisconsin to serve in the U.S. Army in South Vietnam. At the same time, she transfers to UW-Madison to complete her degree in physical therapy. As Carole navigates the antiwar campus occupied by protestors and National Guardsmen, she and her husband struggle to navigate married life from across the ocean. Their intimate letters chronicle the ups and downs of a new marriage set against a backdrop of war and social unrest.
Autorenporträt
Carole Wagener has been a writer for ten years. Her memoir, The Hardest Year: A Love Story in Letters During the Vietnam War (2023) was a finalist in the 2023 International Book Awards. It's based on 300 handwritten letters between Carole and her newlywed husband, William, a GI. fighting in the Vietnam War. In 1968, she was a student at the UW-Madison at the height of the antiwar protests. There Carole earned her degree in physical therapy and then worked as a physical therapist for fifty years. Carole became an antiwar activist and wrote an award-winning screenplay to that effect entitled The Girl with the Dark Red Hair (2024).