American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
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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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