Volume 33, Number 14 · September 25, 1986
The War that Won't Go Away
By John Gregory Dunne
Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace
by William Broyles Jr.
Knopf, 284 pp., $17.95
Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War and the Vietnam Generation
by Lawrence M. Baskir, by William A. Strauss, foreword by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
Random House/Vintage, 312 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation
by Myra MacPherson
Doubleday, 663 pp., $19.95
The Vietnamese Gulag
by Doan Van Toai, by David Chanoff
Simon and Schuster, 351 pp., $18.95
Memorial Day, 1986. Laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, President Ronald Reagan paid special attention, in his remarks, to 'the boys of Vietnam…who fought a terrible and vicious war without enough support from home…. They chose to be faithful. They chose to reject the fashionable skepticism of their time. They chose to believe and answer the call of duty.'
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