American Experience has explored the war from many angles — from the battlefields of Vietnam, to the decision making in Washington, to the protests on college campuses. Explore the in-depth and ...

Christian Langworthy was born in Vietnam ... Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Schools of Arts Fellowship at Columbia University. His chapbook of poems, The Geography of War, won the 1993 ...

Still, the most obvious lesson of Vietnam is the one hardly ever acknowledged: the terrible price paid—human as well as strategic—when America loses a war. If this lesson of the Vietnam War is ...

“I wanted to be a hero,” Bill Broyles recalled in a recent interview about why he volunteered to go to Vietnam ... in Afghanistan (“the longest war in American history,” he noted ...

The disorientation of assimilation was Lê’s subject, the complicated experience of giving up something you knew, something ...

The reunion of old friends, first-person accounts and rarely seen footage paint an extraordinary and deeply profound picture of what it was like to live through one of history's longest wars.

he noted that the American conception of war tends to involve battles, soldiers, guns, and specific beginning and end dates. From his experience growing up as a refugee of the Vietnam War ...

Search and Destory From 1965, the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers were ...

An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War." He is also a Vietnam battlefield tour guide with the UK company The Cultural Experience. You can find out more about Bill here: https://www ...

Casualty figures reflect the pattern of American involvement in the war. One local man, Navy flight surgeon Bruce C. Farrell of WESTLAKE, died in Oct. 1963, before the beginning of "the Vietnam era." ...

An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War." He is also a Vietnam battlefield tour guide with the UK company The Cultural Experience. More from How Real Is It? Editor's note: At 05:00 in this video ...

But the word is out. Turse’s book has shifted the focus of the Vietnam War from the stories of American soldiers to the stories of the civilians whose suffering was orders of magnitude higher.