American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (61 page)

pilots, 158–59, 271

POWS, 242–50

Project 100,000 and, 132–34

resistance by, 212–15

see also
Vietnam veterans

Somalia, 300–303

Somoza, Anastasio, 96, 232, 276

South Africa, 283

South Carolina State University, 201

Southeast Asia: Building the Bases
(Tregaskis), 107–8

South Pacific,
16, 18

Soviet Union, 4, 6, 7, 17, 35–37, 95, 245, 284, 293

Afghanistan and, 318, 321–22

Berlin and, 77, 293

Cuba and, 76–78

Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 11–13, 21, 30

Spitting Image, The
(Lembcke), 237

Spock, Benjamin, 61–62

Springsteen, Bruce, 251–56, 259

Stages of Economic Growth, The: A Non-Communist Manifesto
(Rostow), 100–101

Stahl, Lesley, 304

Stalin, Joseph, 246

Stallone, Sylvester, 247, 248

Statue of Liberty, 260–61, 284

Stevenson, Adlai, 78

Stewart, Jim, 298

Stone, I. F., 25, 45

Stone, Oliver, 191, 257, 266

Stone, Robert, xi, xv

Strategic Hamlet Program, 101–2

Stroessner, Alfredo, 96

Students for a Democratic Society, 135

Sullivan, Ed, 122, 123, 125

Sunni Awakening, 329

surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), 158, 159

surveillance, 332

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, 265–66

Symms, Steven, 265

Tales of the South Pacific
(Michener), 16

Taliban, 309, 322, 331

Taylor, Maxwell, 53

Ten Commandments, The,
9, 11

Tenet, George, 309

terrorism, 227, 288, 320, 332–33

by al-Qaeda, 157 305, 309, 310, 329–30

drone attacks and, 331

September 11 attacks,
see
September 11 terrorist attacks

war on, 312, 317, 323, 331, 332

Tet Offensive, 29–30, 157, 173, 175–78, 287

Thanh Hoa Bridge, 160–61

Thatcher, Margaret, 291

Thieu, Nguyen Van, 31, 224–25

Things They Carried, The
(O’Brien), 58

Thomas, Norman, 13

Thompson, Hugh, 146–47

Thomson, James, 102–3

Thurman, Max, 294

Thuy, Xuan, 87

“Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,” 236

tiger cages, 111

Till, Emmett, 17

Tillman, Kevin, 312

Tillman, Pat, 311–12

Time,
66, 69, 108, 109, 112, 120, 130–32, 137–39, 149, 158, 162, 204, 221, 222, 225, 235, 237

Top Gun,
269–73

Torch,
12

torture, 248, 309, 310

Tougaloo College, 202

Tregaskis, Richard, 107–8

Truman, Harry, 10, 17, 38, 69, 83, 94, 112, 137

Turkey, 76–78

Turnley, Peter, 308

Turse, Nick, 172, 180

Uncommon Valor,
246

unions, 193–95, 197–201

United Auto Workers (UAW), 197

United Nations, 61, 232, 280, 304

United Service Organizations (USO), 208, 264

United Technologies, 256

University of California at Berkeley, 136–37

Unlimited Power
(Robbins), 260

U.S. Army and Marine Counterinsurgency Field Manual, The,
327–28

USA Today,
245, 334

U.S. News and World Report,
140

Vann, John Paul, 156, 157

Veterans Administration, 191–92, 255

Veterans Fast for Life, 280–82

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 286

Viet Cong, 24–25, 28–29, 41–42, 44–46, 53, 54, 58, 65–66, 71, 73, 101, 104, 131, 169, 170, 173, 174, 325

bombing of, 167–69, 171

prisoner, photograph of execution of, 267, 308

Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI), 174–75, 178

Viet Minh, 19–20, 36–37

Vietnam Diary
(Tregaskis), 107

Vietnamese casualties, 242

body counts, 169–71, 173, 179–81, 270, 323

Vietnamese civilians:

bombing of, 162, 164, 167–69, 170, 277

refugees, 3, 28–29, 32, 33, 250, 261

violence against, 172

Vietnamese Communists, 4–5, 14, 20–24, 27–32, 80–81

see also
Viet Cong

Vietnam Lobby, 21–22

Vietnam syndrome, xviii, 283–84, 286, 290, 291, 295, 299

Vietnam veterans, xvii–xviii, 134, 237–42

antiwar, 62–63, 190, 215–16, 266

drug use by, 214, 239

homecomings of, 238

memorials to, xvii–xviii, 229, 239–40, 249

parades for, 240–41

as primary victims of war, 241

as spat upon, 237

Vietnam syndrome and, 284

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), 215–16, 266

Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), 239

Vietnam War Crimes Working Group, 180

Vincent, John Carter, 69

Wallace, George, 200, 201

Wall Street Journal,
245

war crimes, 180, 308

Ward, Lynn, 205

warfare, 151–82, 269

battles in, 170–71

body counts and, 169–71, 173, 179–81, 270, 323, 324

bombing in,
see
bombing

search-and-destroy missions in, 105, 170, 171

War Managers, The
(Kinnard), 181

Washington Post,
61, 332

Watergate, 206, 222

Watt, James G., 240

Wayne, John, 143–44, 254

Weakley, Vernon, 203

Weather Underground, 113

Webb, James, 171

Weekly Standard,
319–20, 324–25

Weinberger, Caspar, 289

Welcome House, 17

Westmoreland, William, 31, 43, 64, 81, 169, 172–75, 178, 180–81

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
(Moore and Galloway), 273–74

Wheeler, Earle, 175

Wiesel, Elie, 301

Will, George, 251–52

Willson, Brian, 275–82

Wilson, Woodrow, 10

Winthrop, John, 7

Wise, David, 86

Woerner, Frederick, Jr., 294

Wolff, Tobias, 177–78

working class, 195–98

World of Charlie Company, The,
213

World War I, 303

World War II, xi–xii, xiii, xvii, 7, 35, 56, 60, 93–94, 229, 243, 301

atomic weapons in, 56–57, 229

Gellhorn’s reporting on, 34–35

Hitler in,
see
Hitler, Adolf

Japan in, 13, 56–57, 157, 163

Yoo, John, 309

Young, Neil, 190, 273

Yugoslavia, 300, 301

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