Vietnam

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  • Happy Fourth of July, soldier

    Independence Day is a national holiday, but personal associations -- from heroism to heroin -- are what give it meaning.
  • Letters to the editor

    Readers reflect on the legacy of Vietnam Plus: Can Ritalin be lethal? Darva Conger should keep her clothes on.
  • McCain's crazy last days in Vietnam

    He goes out with a bang, while a reporter is left to whimper.
  • "My only regret"

    Daniel Ellsberg reflects on the role the Pentagon Papers played in ending the war, and says he wishes he'd released them years earlier.
  • Returning to a place we've never seen

    Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake," says Americans still get Vietnam wrong because we can't stop looking at our collective American navel.
  • McCain, Bush tensions build

    Meeting is still on -- for now.
  • The sound of Vietnam

    How wizard Walter Murch created a soundtrack of horror for Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."
  • McCain returns to the past

    From POW to family man: McCain takes his wife and son back to the "Hanoi Hilton" and the site of his plane crash.
  • Bittersweet orange

    The mysteries of a fleeting romance in Hanoi: He put his chicken in my soup. How should I respond?
  • Still, the dead keep coming

    John McCain's first order of business: Honor the remains of more American soldiers.
  • McCain goes back

    Of his former captors, he says, "I've been able to go on and have a wonderful life, and they've had to stay in Vietnam."
  • What did we learn from Vietnam? Part 2

    Author Todd Gitlin, filmmaker Freida Lee Mock and journalist Andrew Lam on the lasting effects of the war.
  • Looking back on Vietnam

    Salon presents a week-long retrospective on the war and its consequences, at home and abroad.
  • Fred's dead. Or is he?

    In Puerto Perdido they're still talking about the double death of Captain Hook, going buggy with machetes and the penalty for unholy hanky-panky.
  • Different hero, different war

    John McCain's first wife won't say a harsh word about the man who dumped her. Is she a spineless wimp or a quiet hero?
  • Letters to the editor

    Readers clash over McCain's use of "gook" Plus: Splitting up siblings heartbreakingly common; the thrill of playing God with a Sim family.
  • Letters to the editor

    Is onscreen love colorblind? Plus: An unintended message on George W.'s Web site; dog breeding is un-American!
  • No Hue out

    Stuck in a speeding Vietnamese cyclo, far from the city, I noticed headlights close behind. Was this a setup, or was I going to get my lemon grass beef after all?
  • Driving Miss Crazy

    In a recent episode of "Jane Fonda's Life," a chauffeur introduced her to a new fella: God.
  • An unnecessary crock: Michael Lind's "Vietnam: The Necessary War"

    For some thinkers, that ol' international communist conspiracy will never die.
  • The secret life of war

    A historian exposes the unpredictably diverse feelings of ordinary soldiers, but fails to learn from their words.
  • Unarmed and under fire: An oral history of female Vietnam vets

    "All we had was prayer. And I did a lot of that."
  • "Three Kings"

    The stylish, almost hallucinatory war movie promotes director David O. Russell from indie grunt to Hollywood sharpshooter.
  • Why was she squeezing my nipples?

    In Vietnam, a woman-to-woman massage can be a therapeutic experience -- and then sexual intrigue appears.
  • The Barbecue Jesus and other epiphanies

    Wandering off the Vietnamese budget travel trail in search of authenticity, our correspondent finds that authenticity isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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