Peter Hunting Civilian Vietnam Volunteer

Peter Hunting Civilian Vietnam Volunteer --- ===


Peter Hunting was the first american volunteer killed in Vietnam war. 3 more would be killed later. November 1965 he drove his jeep into a Vietcong ambush. His jeep was riddled with bullets and he had been shot 5 times in the head after dodging dozens of attempts on his life before.


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A Death in Vietnam | Wesleyan Magazine
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Jan 20, 2008 - FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, JILL HUNTING had never dared to hope that ... where her brother, Pete Hunting '63, had been killed in Vietnam.

International Voluntary Services - WikipediaInternational Voluntary Services Inc., (IVS) was a private nonprofit organization that placed American volunteers in development projects in Third World countries. IVS had volunteers in Algeria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Laos, Nepal, South Vietnam and other countries. Despite the organization's roots in Christian pacifism, it operated on a nonsectarian basis, accepting volunteers regardless of their religious beliefs.[1][2]  he first volunteer to lose his life was Peter M. Hunting, a 1963 Wesleyan University graduate, who was killed in an ambush in the Mekong Delta in 1965.[6] He is the subject of a memoir and magazine article by his sister, the author and radio essayist Jill Hunting.[7] Jill Hunting writes in her memoir that volunteers in the Vietnam war zone were aware of the risks they took, with one volunteer reporting "thirty different attempts on his life that he never mentioned to anyone while he was in Vietnam."[8]

Finding Pete: Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam - Amazon.com
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Two days after Jill Hunting turned fifteen, she lost her only brother, a volunteer with International Voluntary Services and one of the first civilian casualties of the ...Two days after Jill Hunting turned fifteen, she lost her only brother, a volunteer with International Voluntary Services and one of the first civilian casualties of the Vietnam War. News broadcasts and headlines announced to the world that Pete had been led into an ambush by friends. When Jill’s mother told her that Pete’s letters home had all been destroyed in a basement flood, the connection between Jill and her brother was lost forever—or so she thought. Decades later, 175 letters surfaced. Through them, and the sweethearts and many friends who had never forgotten Pete, Jill came to know him again.  Finding Pete is one of the great, untold true stories of an escalating war and a young man caught in its sights. This personalized account of a critical moment in U.S. history is the moving story of an altruistic youth who personifies what America lost in Vietnam. It is also a portrait of a family’s struggle with loss, a mother’s damaging grief, and, most of all, a sister’s quest to solve a mystery and recover the connection with her brother. Includes a reader’s guide.

Mr. Bob, the Chicken Engineer: Toward Understanding the Real Vietnam
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Robert C. Hargreaves - 2014 - ‎HistoryToward Understanding the Real Vietnam Robert C. Hargreaves ... In 1966 IVSer Peter Hunting was ambushed and killed driving alone on a rural road in the ...3 more would be killed