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...were not allowed to win the war. The media provided the ammunition (albeit defective) that the peacenik militants used to label our men baby killers and monsters of all kinds. There was little or no mention by the press and TV of enemy atrocities, which were commonplace, or defeats (Tet). The war was probably journalism's lowest point...
Well, everyone is getting older now. A child who was born during the Tet offensive of early 1968 is already a teenager. The last helicopter went whumping ignominiously off the U.S. embassy roof in Saigon more than six years ago. And the Viet Nam veterans are not kids any more. They are losing hair and getting fat and sighting down the road toward middle age. Why is it that so many of them, so many of those Americans who fought the war, still return to it with sharp, deep, sometimes obsessive memories?tonguing the bad tooth, re-enacting the most...
...that may be changing. A new attitude seems to be developing, in both Viet Nam veterans and the nation at large. Americans seem more disposed than at any time in the 13 years since the Tet offensive to admit that the Viet Nam veterans have borne too much of the moral burden for a war that went all wrong. If there is a burden to be carried, it should be assigned to the men who conceived and directed the war; or, more broadly, it should be shared-in the most profound explorations of which they are capable-by all Americans...
...holds up; the young conscript is asked to endure all discomforts of the field, including death, but if he returns, the grateful nation (though it may soon grow indifferent) promises at least a banal ration of glory, a ceremonious welcome, the admiring opinion of his fellow citizens. Sometime between Tet and the last helicopter off the embassy roof in 1975, America threw away its social contract with the soldiers and left them to straggle back into the society as best they could. A lot of them have still not made...
...study also found that stress reactions-occurring even ten years after combat-are particularly acute for those who served after the 1968 Tet offensive, when combat escalated. In addition, the study showed that six out of every ten men either opposed or did not understand the war in which they were fighting. Potential adjustment problems were exacerbated by the divisive mood of the country when the soldiers came home. That ambivalence persists: the return of the Iranian hostages and the attendant celebrations made many Viet Nam veterans agonize anew over their status as social outcasts. Says Lee Sloan, associate director...