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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 deeply personal memories to reflect on the war's lingering aftereffects and the shallow, evasive ways we deal with them.Beidler brings back the war he knew in chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. His catalog of soldier slang reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one's sense of absurdity. His survey of the war's pop hits looks for meaning in the soundtrack many veterans still hear in their heads. Beidler also explains how "Viet Pulp" literature about snipers, tunnel rats, and other hard-core types has pushed aside masterpieces like Duong Thu Huong's Novel without a Name. Likewise we learn why the movie The Deer Hunter doesn't "get it" about Vietnam but why Platoon and We Were Soldiers sometimes nearly do.As Beidler takes measure of his own wartime politics and morals, he ponders the divergent careers of such figures as William Calley, the army lieutenant whose name is synonymous with the civilian massacre at My Lai, and an old friend, poet John Balaban, a conscientious objector who performed alternative duty in Vietnam as a schoolteacher and hospital worker.Beidler also looks at Vietnam alongside other conflicts--including the war on international terrorism. He once hoped, he says, that Vietnam had fractured our sense of providential destiny and geopolitical invincibility but now realizes, with dismay, that those myths are still with us. "Americans have always wanted their apocalypses," writes Beidler, "and they have always wanted them now." Thoughts on Flash - Apple Apple has a long relationship with Adobe In fact we met Adobes founders when they were in their proverbial garage Apple was their first big customer adopting John Scalzi's Old Man's War Preview Page Welcome to the Old Man's War preview page I'm John Scalzi author of Old Man's War and your host Here you'll find various things including Three years too late Golda Meir understood how war could Three years too late Golda Meir understood how war could have been avoided The grandmother who led Israel at the time of the 1973 war made a series of instinctive Alfred Nobel's Thoughts about War and Peace Alfred Nobel's Thoughts about War and Peace by Sven Tgil* When Alfred Nobel's will was made known after his death in San Remo on 10 December 1896 and when it was Thomas Paines Common Sense - ushistoryorg Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs IN the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts plain arguments and common sense: and have no other Is World War III Coming? The People of Twitter Share Their Many people are afraid - understandably - that World War III is inevitable: it is not a matter of IF it is a matter of WHEN The Robert Anton Wilson Website - RAW Thoughts The official Robert Anton Wilson website Sales excerpts and speculation RAWsite Blog Direct links to auxiliary maybe-based organizations The Committee for IranSaudi Arabia relations - Wikipedia Tensions After the Islamic Revolution relations deteriorated considerably after Iran accused Saudi Arabia of being an agent of the US in the Persian Gulf region Old Mans War by John Scalzi - John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday First he visited his wife's grave Then he joined the army The good news is that humanity finally made it into Opinion: How a century-old war affects you - CNNcom World War I began a hundred years ago this summer but for many of us it might as well be a thousand We know it if we know it at all as a dimly
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