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How Vietnam dramatically changed our views on honor and war

  • Written by Richard Lachmann, Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageMarines help the wounded man to an evacuation helicopter near Van Tuong,1965. AP Photo/Peter Arnett

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