I'm going to excerpt more from this book. It challenges almost every aspect of my received wisdom about the War in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, during which time I spent 996 days in the U.S. Army--all safely Stateside. A degree of survivor guilt impels me to explore another viewpoint about why so many Americans of my generation--and far, far more Vietnamese of all ages--ended up either killed or disabled by that godforsaken conflict.
Monday, June 20, 2005
The Necessary War
At Far Outliers, Joel presents an excerpt from Michael Lind's Vietnam, the Necessary War, and writes:
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