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'''Terry Whitmore''' (March 6, 1947 – 2007) was an African American Marine who [[desertion|deserted]] during the Vietnam War.
==Early life==
Terry Whitmore was born on March 6, 1947<ref name="SFD"/> and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from high school and then enlisted in the Marines in fall of of 1966.<ref name="Greenspun">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Whitmore believed that he would have been drafted anyway, and voluntarily enlisting meant he might get to stay home for one more Christmas.<ref name="Nilson"/>
==Military service and desertion==
After enlisting, Whitmore was sent overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. Though he was initially promised a non-combat role on a ship, though this did not hold.<ref name="Nilson"/> By December 1966, he was a [[lance corporal]] and was [[wounded in action]] near [[Con Thien]]. He believed that some of the North Vietnamese combatants intentionally spared his life, instead shooting the White troops he was with. He was sent to Japan to recover, where he was initially told he would not have to return to Vietnam. The orders were changed, though, and he was scheduled to leave Japan for Vietnam.<ref name="Nilson"/> With the help of an anti-war group, he instead traveled across the USSR to Sweden, where he sought asylum.<ref name="Greenspun"/>
As of 1968, he was one of eighty US troops who deserted to Sweden, along with thirteen other Black troops.<ref name="Nilson"></ref>
==Personal life==
Whitmore became engaged to a Swedish woman while in Sweden.<ref name="Nilson"/> While in Sweden, he joined a basketball team founded by American deserters of the Vietnam War, the Stockholm Stars.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Works==
Whitmore was one of the few Black Vietnam War veterans to write a memoir about his experience: ''Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Autobiography of a Black American Exile'', published in 1971.<ref name="Loeb"></ref> He was also the subject of the 1969 documentary ''Terry Whitmore, for Example''.<ref name="Greenspun"/>
==Later life and death==
Whitmore returned to Memphis in 2001, and died in 2007.<ref name="SFD"></ref>
==References==
==Early life==
Terry Whitmore was born on March 6, 1947<ref name="SFD"/> and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from high school and then enlisted in the Marines in fall of of 1966.<ref name="Greenspun">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Whitmore believed that he would have been drafted anyway, and voluntarily enlisting meant he might get to stay home for one more Christmas.<ref name="Nilson"/>
==Military service and desertion==
After enlisting, Whitmore was sent overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. Though he was initially promised a non-combat role on a ship, though this did not hold.<ref name="Nilson"/> By December 1966, he was a [[lance corporal]] and was [[wounded in action]] near [[Con Thien]]. He believed that some of the North Vietnamese combatants intentionally spared his life, instead shooting the White troops he was with. He was sent to Japan to recover, where he was initially told he would not have to return to Vietnam. The orders were changed, though, and he was scheduled to leave Japan for Vietnam.<ref name="Nilson"/> With the help of an anti-war group, he instead traveled across the USSR to Sweden, where he sought asylum.<ref name="Greenspun"/>
As of 1968, he was one of eighty US troops who deserted to Sweden, along with thirteen other Black troops.<ref name="Nilson"></ref>
==Personal life==
Whitmore became engaged to a Swedish woman while in Sweden.<ref name="Nilson"/> While in Sweden, he joined a basketball team founded by American deserters of the Vietnam War, the Stockholm Stars.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Works==
Whitmore was one of the few Black Vietnam War veterans to write a memoir about his experience: ''Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Autobiography of a Black American Exile'', published in 1971.<ref name="Loeb"></ref> He was also the subject of the 1969 documentary ''Terry Whitmore, for Example''.<ref name="Greenspun"/>
==Later life and death==
Whitmore returned to Memphis in 2001, and died in 2007.<ref name="SFD"></ref>
==References==
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