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Melissa Ziobro, curator for the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music and adjunct professor of public history, will publish a new book, \u201cThe Battlin’ Bastards of Bravo: Bravo Company, 1\/506th, 101st Airborne, in Vietnam and Beyond,\u201d on Apr. 15 (Casemate, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBattlin\u2019 Bastards,\u201d which Ziobro began writing before moving into her current BSACAM role, shares the stories of 26 Vietnam War veterans and one Gold Star family, along with their intimate photos, collected over a roughly 18-month period. Each story provides insights into what life was like for an American combat soldier in Vietnam and helps the reader ponder the lessons we can learn from their experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was truly a case study in \u2018shared authority\u2019 as the men were by my side every step of the way, from project concept to page proofs,\u201d said Ziobro. \u201cAt the end of the day, these are their stories\u2014I\u2019m really just their secretary! I am so honored that they trusted me with this project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ziobro is donating the book\u2019s royalties to Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in honor of the “Battlin’ Bastards” who did not make it home.\u00a0She donated the royalties of her previous book, \u201cFort Monmouth: The US Army\u2019s House of Magic,\u201d to the InfoAge Science and History Museums at the Camp Evans National Historic Landmark in Wall Township, a former Fort Monmouth outpost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBattlin\u2019 Bastards\u201d is available for preorder on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melissa Ziobro, curator for the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music and adjunct professor of public history, will publish a new book, \u201cThe Battlin’ Bastards of Bravo: Bravo Company, 1\/506th, 101st Airborne, in Vietnam and Beyond,\u201d on Apr. 15 (Casemate, 2025). \u201cBattlin\u2019 Bastards,\u201d which Ziobro began writing before moving into her current BSACAM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802288254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,444,423],"tags":[1742],"person":[567],"audience":[14,386,11,8,50,29],"school":[95,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802288252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accomplished-alumni","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-bsacam","person-mziobro","audience-alumni","audience-community","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-graduate-student","audience-media","school-history-anthropology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802286876,"rendered":"\"Specialist","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/01\/Melissa-Ziobro-Headshot_20190919_AD_03-square.jpg","width":4480,"height":4480}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802288252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802288252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802288252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802288317,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802288252\/revisions\/40802288317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802288254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802288252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802288252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802288252"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802288252"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802288252"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802288252"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802288252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}