Late thoughts on an old war
Subtitle: the legacy of Vietnam
By: Philip D. Beidler.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Influence.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Motion pictures and the conflict.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the conflict.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Music and the conflict.
Description: "Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about Vietnam's costs, opening wider the temptation to make it something more necessary, neatly contained, and justifiable than it should ever become. Here Beidler draws on personal memories to reflect on the war's lingering aftereffects and the shallow, evasive ways we deal with them."--BOOK JACKET.