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American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity

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by Appy, Christian G.


  Stahl, Lesley, 304

  Stalin, Joseph, 246

  Stallone, Sylvester, 247, 248

  Statue of Liberty, 260–61, 284

  Stevenson, Adlai, 78

  Stewart, Jim, 298

  Stone, I. F., 25, 45

  Stone, Oliver, 191, 257, 266

  Stone, Robert, xi, xv

  Strategic Hamlet Program, 101–2

  Stroessner, Alfredo, 96

  Students for a Democratic Society, 135

  Sullivan, Ed, 122, 123, 125

  Sunni Awakening, 329

  surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), 158, 159

  surveillance, 332

  Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, 265–66

  Symms, Steven, 265

  Tales of the South Pacific (Michener), 16

  Taliban, 309, 322, 331

  Taylor, Maxwell, 53

  Ten Commandments, The, 9, 11

  Tenet, George, 309

  terrorism, 227, 288, 320, 332–33

  by al-Qaeda, 157 305, 309, 310, 329–30

  drone attacks and, 331

  September 11 attacks, see September 11 terrorist attacks

  war on, 312, 317, 323, 331, 332

  Tet Offensive, 29–30, 157, 173, 175–78, 287

  Thanh Hoa Bridge, 160–61

  Thatcher, Margaret, 291

  Thieu, Nguyen Van, 31, 224–25

  Things They Carried, The (O’Brien), 58

  Thomas, Norman, 13

  Thompson, Hugh, 146–47

  Thomson, James, 102–3

  Thurman, Max, 294

  Thuy, Xuan, 87

  “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,” 236

  tiger cages, 111

  Till, Emmett, 17

  Tillman, Kevin, 312

  Tillman, Pat, 311–12

  Time, 66, 69, 108, 109, 112, 120, 130–32, 137–39, 149, 158, 162, 204, 221, 222, 225, 235, 237

  Top Gun, 269–73

  Torch, 12

  torture, 248, 309, 310

  Tougaloo College, 202

  Tregaskis, Richard, 107–8

  Truman, Harry, 10, 17, 38, 69, 83, 94, 112, 137

  Turkey, 76–78

  Turnley, Peter, 308

  Turse, Nick, 172, 180

  Uncommon Valor, 246

  unions, 193–95, 197–201

  United Auto Workers (UAW), 197

  United Nations, 61, 232, 280, 304

  United Service Organizations (USO), 208, 264

  United Technologies, 256

  University of California at Berkeley, 136–37

  Unlimited Power (Robbins), 260

  U.S. Army and Marine Counterinsurgency Field Manual, The, 327–28

  USA Today, 245, 334

  U.S. News and World Report, 140

  Vann, John Paul, 156, 157

  Veterans Administration, 191–92, 255

  Veterans Fast for Life, 280–82

  Veterans of Foreign Wars, 286

  Viet Cong, 24–25, 28–29, 41–42, 44–46, 53, 54, 58, 65–66, 71, 73, 101, 104, 131, 169, 170, 173, 174, 325

  bombing of, 167–69, 171

  prisoner, photograph of execution of, 267, 308

  Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI), 174–75, 178

  Viet Minh, 19–20, 36–37

  Vietnam Diary (Tregaskis), 107

  Vietnamese casualties, 242

  body counts, 169–71, 173, 179–81, 270, 323

  Vietnamese civilians:

  bombing of, 162, 164, 167–69, 170, 277

  refugees, 3, 28–29, 32, 33, 250, 261

  violence against, 172

  Vietnamese Communists, 4–5, 14, 20–24, 27–32, 80–81

  see also Viet Cong

  Vietnam Lobby, 21–22

  Vietnam syndrome, xviii, 283–84, 286, 290, 291, 295, 299

  Vietnam veterans, xvii–xviii, 134, 237–42

  antiwar, 62–63, 190, 215–16, 266

  drug use by, 214, 239

  homecomings of, 238

  memorials to, xvii–xviii, 229, 239–40, 249

  parades for, 240–41

  as primary victims of war, 241

  as spat upon, 237

  Vietnam syndrome and, 284

  Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), 215–16, 266

  Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), 239

  Vietnam War Crimes Working Group, 180

  Vincent, John Carter, 69

  Wallace, George, 200, 201

  Wall Street Journal, 245

  war crimes, 180, 308

  Ward, Lynn, 205

  warfare, 151–82, 269

  battles in, 170–71

  body counts and, 169–71, 173, 179–81, 270, 323, 324

  bombing in, see bombing

  search-and-destroy missions in, 105, 170, 171

  War Managers, The (Kinnard), 181

  Washington Post, 61, 332

  Watergate, 206, 222

  Watt, James G., 240

  Wayne, John, 143–44, 254

  Weakley, Vernon, 203

  Weather Underground, 113

  Webb, James, 171

  Weekly Standard, 319–20, 324–25

  Weinberger, Caspar, 289

  Welcome House, 17

  Westmoreland, William, 31, 43, 64, 81, 169, 172–75, 178, 180–81

  We Were Soldiers Once... and Young (Moore and Galloway), 273–74

  Wheeler, Earle, 175

  Wiesel, Elie, 301

  Will, George, 251–52

  Willson, Brian, 275–82

  Wilson, Woodrow, 10

  Winthrop, John, 7

  Wise, David, 86

  Woerner, Frederick, Jr., 294

  Wolff, Tobias, 177–78

  working class, 195–98

  World of Charlie Company, The, 213

  World War I, 303

  World War II, xi–xii, xiii, xvii, 7, 35, 56, 60, 93–94, 229, 243, 301

  atomic weapons in, 56–57, 229

  Gellhorn’s reporting on, 34–35

  Hitler in, see Hitler, Adolf

  Japan in, 13, 56–57, 157, 163

  Yoo, John, 309

  Young, Neil, 190, 273

  Yugoslavia, 300, 301

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