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W. D. Ehrhart
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William "Bill" Daniel Ehrhart (born September 30, 1948) is an American poet, writer, scholar and Vietnam veteran. Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts, said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, is "the best single, unadorned, gut-felt telling of one American's route into and out of America's longest war." Ehrhart has been an active member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).[1] He was a 1993 Pew Fellow in the Arts.
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Born | William Daniel Ehrhart (1948-09-30) September 30, 1948 (age 75) Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet, essayist |
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Allegiance | United States of America |
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Years of service | 1966–1969 |
Rank | Sergeant |
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