As many have said, “Vietnam is a country, not a war,
” but for much of the world, especially the United States, Vietnam is synonymous with memories of a demoralizing military excursion, which scarred many peoples memories. Americans easily forget that the suffering and disruption in Vietnam was, and continues to be, many times greater than that experienced in the West. Without attempting a history of the war, an explication of its roots and causes, or a psychoanalysis of its...
