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How the Pentagon tried to cure America of its 'Vietnam syndrome'

  • Written by Paul Joseph, Professor of Sociology, Tufts University
imageA couple watch film footage of the Vietnam war on a television in their living room.Library of Congress

In August 1965, Morley Safer, a reporter for “CBS News,” accompanied a unit of U.S. marines on a search-and-destroy mission to the Vietnamese village of Cam Ne. Using cigarette lighters and a flamethrower, the troops proceeded to burn...

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