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Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There 
by Mark Baker (2001)
read: 1 June 2009
rating: [+]
category: non-fiction
There are still a lot of questions about the Vietnam War. Why we were there in the first place, what went wrong, could we have won? This book answers none of them. Instead, this book is a deftly edited narrative based on interviews with Vets. Nobody is named, and their stories from Vietnam are raw, gritty, profane, and horrifying. This is the phrase “War is hell” personified. However, it does provide some insight into how good people, when put into horrifying situations, can allow themselves to do horrifying things. I think we’d all be better off if we tried a little harder to stop putting our military into horrifying situations.
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