Word: nam
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...moment, 1968, that mysteriously stepped outside of time, one that was forever bringing the young to dimensions of eternity and the sacred: the boy-soldiers in Viet Nam were connected to death, the heroes to their own cessations, cut down in the prime of their youth and work. Part of the mythic power of the year derives from the mystery of all the possibilities that vanished into death and nothingness. (In October there came an odd, minor coda to the sex and death and disillusion of the '60s, when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Illusion -- Camelot and the rest -- came...
...floor of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, assembling the new Administration, a new cast of characters, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest. The nation soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long to prevent. During 1968, another 16,000 Americans died in the war. By the time the polished black granite of the Viet Nam Memorial was installed...
They failed. Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring. The Fifth Republic endured. The Viet Nam war ground on. The alchemy of revolt was powerful enough to shake the world, but not quite enough to change...
...Viet Nam was the alpha and omega of an increasingly tangled American psyche. In 1968, it was a series of national traumas...
COVER: Photographs of daisies and bullet by Armen Kachaturian, Janis Joplin by Dan McCoy -- Black Star, U.S. Soldiers in Viet Nam by Larry Burrows -- LIFE, Robert Kennedy by Burt Glinn -- Magnum, Coretta King by Bob Fitch -- Black Star