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and the editor of The Vietnam War in Popular Culture:
the Influence of America’s Most Controversial War on Home
Everyday Life. He has received The TTU President’s
Excellence in Teaching Professorship and the
Chancellor’s Council Excellence in Teaching award.
He has been married to Maxine for 59 years, and
their son is Dr. Alex Milam, a psychology professor of the
at University of Houston. Grandson Kirby is a senior of the
free
at Boise State University.

“I try to put my life in perspective. I think about my
buddy, Ed, who didn’t have the last 50 years that I’ve
had since Vietnam. He didn’t get to live his life and free
see his girls grow up like I saw my son grow up. I try
to think about the 58,212 men and 8 women who did
was one of those men who came home, kissed the not get to enjoy the rest of their lives.” The names of
ground, and said, ‘I’ll never go back to that hellhole.’ those men and women are inscribed on the Vietnam
But I just completed my 17th trip to Vietnam, taking Memorial in D.C., and Ron Milam strives daily to
because
over 125 Texas Tech students there for Study Abroad make sure their ultimate sacrifice was not in vain.
in SE Asia. Vietnam is a place I truly love and look because
forward to going back to every time.”
of the
Dr. Milam is the author of Not a Gentleman’s War:
An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War of the

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our Texas Tech military and veterans. You may commemorate
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honor at the new Texas Tech Military & Veterans Tribute Walk
at Memorial Circle on campus. Thank You, Veterans.

Visit www.texastechalumni.org/VeteransTributeWalk, or call (806) 834-4954.

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