QUANG TRI PROVINCE, Vietnam — The Vietnam odyssey of MTSU alumnus William “Bud” Morris came full circle in March. The Murfreesboro native called his sojourn with the university’s Vietnam study-abroad class “the greatest experience of my life.”
Nine students signed up for a pioneering history course that required them to compare Vietnam and the Vietnam War as depicted in American media with what they learned on a 14-day tour of the country this spring.
Morris, now an insurance agent who bleeds State Farm red and MTSU blue, returned March 21 to the area where he served with the First Brigade, Fifth Infantry Mechanized Division of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. To read the full story, go to http://mtsunews.com/mtsu-in-vietnam-morris.
QUANG TRI PROVINCE, Vietnam — The Vietnam odyssey of MTSU alumnus William “Bud” Morris has come full circle. The Murfreesboro native calls his sojourn with the university's Vietnam study-abroad class “the greatest experience of my life.” Nine students signed up for a pioneering history course that requires them to compare…
Members of an MTSU study-abroad course remembered a fallen alumnus recently on the site where he gave his life during an infamous battle in the Vietnam War. History professor Derek Frisby and a small group of students in his course, “Warfare and Public Memory in Vietnam,” visited Hill 937 in Vietnam’s…
The first MTSU students to make a trip to Vietnam as part of their educational experience reflect on what they saw and heard. They toured Vietnam March 10-24 under the direction of Dr. Derek Frisby, associate professor of history. To read a blog about this Vietnam trip, got to http://mtsunews.com/vietnam-visit-2013.…
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