The Vietnam War’s got silver hair now, a mortgage, and is much closer to Social Security than college.

Hard to believe it’s been fifty or so years since the height of American involvement in that conflict, but there it is. Math don’t lie.

I think Confucius said that?

Anyhow, Vietnam. The debate surrounding the war tore apart our country in ways unseen since the Civil War a century before, and unseen since. “Vietnam was a terribly important thing for this country,” the great writer Robert Stone said in an interview before his death. “It’s like a wound covered with scar tissue or like a foreign body, a piece of shrapnel that the organism has built up a protective wall around, but it is embedded in our history; it is embedded in our definition of who we are. We... Read More