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This page intentionally left blank forever vietnam A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War edited by Christian G. Appy other titles in the s eries James T. Fisher, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966 H. Bruce Franklin,Vietnam and Other American Fantasies Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy Lee Bernstein, The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele, and Michael E. Latham, eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War Jonathan Nashel, Edward Lansdale’s Cold War James Peck,Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism Edwin A. Martini, Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975–2000 Tony Shaw, Hollywood’s Cold War Maureen Ryan, The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War David Hunt,Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War Patrick Hagopian, The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing Jeremy Kuzmarov, The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs Robert Surbrug Jr., Beyond Vietnam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974–1990 Larry Grubbs, Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s Robert A. Jacobs, The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age Andrew J. Falk, Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940–1960 Jerry Lembcke, Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal Anna G. Creadick, Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America Kathleen Donohue, ed., Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America Jeremy Kuzmarov, Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation Building in the American Century Roger Peace, A Call to Conscience: The Anti–Contra War Campaign Edwin A. Martini, Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty Sandra Scanlon, The Pro-War Movement: Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism Matthew W. Dunne, A Cold War State of Mind: Brainwashing and Postwar American Society Patrick Hagopian, American Immunity: War Crimes and the Limits of International Law forever vietnam How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory DaviD Kieran University of MassachUsetts Press Amherst and Boston Copyright © 2014 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 978-1-62534-100-6 (paper); 099-3 (hardcover) Designed by Sally Nichols Set in Adobe Minion Pro Printed and bound by Maple Press, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kieran, David, 1978– Forever Vietnam : how a divisive war changed American public memory / David Kieran. pages cm. — (Culture, politics, and the Cold War) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62534-100-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62534-099-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Social aspects—United States. 2. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—United States—Psychological aspects. 3. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Influence. 4. Memory—Social aspects—United States. 5. Collective memory—United States. I. Title. DS559.8.S6K54 2014 959.704´31—dc23 2014008141 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. For Emma This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction “I Know What It’s Like” 1 1. “How Far Is Andersonville from Vietnam?” Vietnam Revisionism and Andersonville National Historic Site 14 2. “We Veterans of Mass Murder and Stupidity” Older Veterans’ PTSD and the Narration of Combat in Post-Vietnam Memoirs of the Second World War 52 3. “We See a Lot of Parallels between the Men at the Alamo and Ourselves” Recovering from Vietnam at the Alamo 89 4. “We Should Have Said No” The Legacy of Vietnam, Remembrance of Somalia, and Debates over Humanitarian Intervention in the 1990s 127 5. “It’s Almost Like the Vietnam Wall” The Legacy of Vietnam and Remembrance of Flight 93 161 6. “The Lessons of History” Vietnam’s Legacy during the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 203 [ vii ] [ viii ] contents afterword “The Task of Telling Your Story Continues” 235 Abbreviations Used in the Notes 241 Notes 243 Index 297
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