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The Myth of U.S. Defeat in Vietnam's significance lies in re-exposing academia's unwillingness to even entertain the possibility of U.S. victory in South Vietnam. The questions Walton poses aren't original — not because they have been resolved, but because they have been “silenced” by being ignored. [...]  Never has a war inspired the imagination (lurid and otherwise) of so many Americans, and yet the lives of the actual soldiers interested so few. A review of B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley's Stolen Valor and Gerald Nicosia's Home to War. [...] The Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation is a plaintiff, along with Red, White, and Blue Productions, and Vietnam veteran turned journalist Carlton Sherwood, in a defamation action against John Kerry and Tony Podesta. [...] This book tells the story of every American POW in Indochina, detailing everything from the torture they endured to their communication of tapping and methods of resistance. [...] From the outset, Abrams understands that his main opponent is neither the VC nor the NVA, but the U.S. media. His struggles will be less in securing hamlets, than conveying the significance of this to the American public. There is less information on pacification in Sorley’s 900 pages, than on countering the misrepresentations of the [...] In his book M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America, H. Bruce Franklin attempts to establish that the POW "myth" was created by the Nixon White House in order to extend the Vietnam War. His first speculations about potentially unaccounted for servicemen suggest that they may have been deserters who formed new families, got involved with drug [...] John O'Neill's Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacked John Kerry where he was most vulnerable and helped prevent his ascension to the Presidency. [...] The Vietnam war will not be over until less attention is given to resurrecting the ghosts of the past, and more to those who solider on and carry the very real burdens of America’s South East Asian war. [...] If only for one weekend, festival attendees at the American Renaissance Film Festival could be unabashedly proud of their country and of the many sacrifices its fighting forces have made throughout the world. [...] (With apologies to Mr. Kipling and the British Army). [...] How many soldiers do you know who are exhibited as honorary war heroes in the Communist War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City? [...] The Swift Boat Veterans’ beef with Kerry goes back to 1971, when John Kerry acquiesced to appear on the Dick Cavett Show for one debate with John O'Neil. [...] The unprecedented injustice inflicted on the Vietnam vets has always lain just under the surface, waiting for a chance to be uncovered. The feelings of betrayal had faded, but they were never resolved. [...] Many on the Left, including John F. Kerry, tout that they actually saved lives with their anti-war activities. [...] Judson Cox conducts a follow-up interview with Van Odell of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. [...] The honorable thing to do is to stay out of this fight and acknowledge that you have no personal knowledge of the events the Swiftvets described. [...] A Vietnam veteran questions how Kerry can cavalierly parade his Vietnam experience. [...] The Officers-in-Charge of Swift boats PCF-51, PCF-23, PCF-43, and PCF-3 state that they were not receiving enemy fire after the mine explosion. [...] The light of truth is beginning to shine on John Kerry and his band of brothers. [...] John Edwards has said, “If you want to know about John Kerry’s values, ask the men who served with him in Vietnam.” [...] Van Odell, a gunners mate, served on PCF's 93, 35, and 10. [...] I don’t need all you Swiftvets to support my campaign, Cause Christmas in Cambodia is seared into my brain. [...] John E. O’Neill and Jerome R. Corsi’s new book Unfit for Command puts John Kerry's Vietnam service in a whole new light. [...] The Library of America's Reporting Vietnam is a significant historical achievement. But reading these essays as an historian, it is evident that characterizing them broadly as simply "optimistic" or "pessimistic" prevents their historical specificity from being appreciated. [...] The strange new respect for Vietnam veterans is temporary, only a brevet promotion, the result of partisan opportunity and media obsession. Those who hanker for that sort of attention should relish their fifteen minutes of respectability. [...] |
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