Volume 32, Number 10 · June 13, 1985
Parade's End
By Murray Kempton
Nothing in the minutes before New York at last lit up its Vietnam memorial last month can ever entrap the memory so lastingly and so painfully as the company of soldiers a decade or more demobilized still wearing their jungle fatigues. Their dress was a badge of how different from the rest of us they remain—they insist on looking as though still on the way back from some long patrol carrying their wounded.
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