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Vietnam Zippos

Sherry Buchanan

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"I chose to read American Zippos because it seemed like something that would be sort of good. I like to read books sort of in clusters, and I was reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and that was sort of the literary version of -- the visual version of American Zippos. The book of a coffee table format. It's mostly pictures of Zippos and then put in the context of their different uses or different time periods, and some of them, it's interesting to see the actual Zippos because they're sort of archaeological finds in a sense. They really have a sense of where they've been and so there are also ways in which they're creatively photographed. In ways it's kind of like an art book. The concept of the book generally is a survey of the different time periods wherein which people are carrying Zippo lighters and the role the Zippo lighter played in the daily life of a soldier. The best parts of the book were really that you get a sense of the different change, the periods in which these lighters were used, and that some of the lighters have almost histories on them where they start very __________ and warmongering and then get into this sort of -- you'll have these conflictory ideas like the peace symbol and these terms like "death from above," and that you see that there was a transition in the person as well as the transition in the lighter. I tend to be someone who likes to delve into books, and I think that some of the parts I didn't like were the fact that because it was sort of a picture book per se, it didn't give an opportunity to really get into what some of those things meant outside of just their cultural reference. This book allowed me the opportunity to really want to go search out other Zippos and maybe think about a Zippo in my life in that kind of context and that how it can be sort of an icon of what's going on in your life. I think the equivalent nowadays would be something like people's iPods. The iPod's not quite like that, but people personalize that and try and make it their own in the same way."