In their award-winning book “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War”—which Rolling Stone magazine named the best music book of 2015—co-authors Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American wartime experience. Based on this compassionate study of the ways in which U.S. troops turned to music as a means of connection and coping with combat and the lingering effects of PTSD, Bradley and Werner have developed a healing presentation merging indelible songs from the 1960s and ‘70s with personal stories told by U.S. troops.

For this afternoon program that honors all veterans and gives voice to their pasts and legacies, Bradley and Werner will provide a brief overview of how music functioned during and after the Vietnam War; share songs by Bob Dylan, Bill Withers, Creedence Clearwater Revival and other era-defining musicians; relate firsthand accounts from a chorus of veterans; and engage the audience in a Q&A session, all in a nonjudgmental environment of sharing, listening and understanding.

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