101. Newfolk NDF: Songs Of The Vietnam War Songs of the Vietnam War An Occupational Folk Tradition, in New Directions The cultivation of myths and symbols that consolidate a sense of historical http://www.temple.edu/isllc/newfolk/military/songs.html

New Directions in Folklore 7 2003 Newfolk NDF Archive Issue 7 Songs of the Vietnam War: An Occupational Folk Tradition Les Cleveland Whatever the military perplexities of Vietnam, at least the social behavior of its Western participants conformed to some of the traditional experience of modern warfare. Like a previous generation of U. S. and other Allied services personnel in World War II, the troops in Vietnam used occupational folksong to define the complexities of their situation. This can be explored by applying the concept of organizational culture to a selection of the songs that were current during the war. Edgar H. Schein (1985:9) defines the culture of groups within occupational communities and organizations as a pattern of basic assumptions invented or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external advantage and internal integration. This pattern of assumptions needs to have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore to be taught to new members as the correct way to think and feel in relation to these problems. In other words, organizational culture is the way groups face the world and maintain their own internal solidarity. Their cultures can be studied formally through officially sponsored customs and observances of particular units, or they can be investigated informally through a group's folklore. Being a Grunt, you learn to live with what you've got

102. Monitoring The Myths, 7/8/2005 - The Texas Observer The problem is that both myths are myths. The US assault on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia was part of a wider attack on independent movements in the Third http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1999

103. History News Network True Believers in the Rambo Myth about America s war in Vietnam have posted dozens of articles and hundreds of comments to HNN. I don t suppose this comment http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=40478

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