Karl Marlantes: Why I Chose to Go to Vietnam

On this episode of Our American Stories, in the late 1960s Karl Marlantes had a decision to make. He could serve in a war that he saw as unjust, desert to Algeria or Sweden, or stay at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship as his high school friends fought and died in Vietnam. Marlantes decided to serve. But why? Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.