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...Viet Nam brought on a cultural civil war in the U.S.?a deep and basic fracture. The conflict within the immense baby-boom generation?the Americans who came of age just in time for Viet Nam ?almost amounted to this century's equivalent of the War Between the States. But now, here and there, are signs that the terrible poisons and destructive intractabilities of the time are yielding to some charity and acceptance. Many antiwar activists are learning a certain sympathy for the Viet Nam veterans that they never displayed before. Says Journalist Doug Kamholz, an antiwar radical...
...veteran who is trying to reconcile those who served and those who did not is James Webb. A much decorated, twice-wounded Annapolis graduate who led a company of Marines in Viet Nam, Webb recently resigned as minority counsel to the House Veterans' Affairs Committee to devote full time to writing. "We're going to lead this country side by side," Webb says of those converging constituencies...
...people who didn't serve in those years to come off this pretentiousness of moral commitment and realize that the guys who went to combat are the ones who suffered the most. They are also the ones who gave the most." For that reason, Webb believes, the Viet Nam vets "in the aggregate are probably the strongest people in their age group...
Years after the end of the war, the plight of the Viet Nam veteran in this country remains a painful and emotional subject. For the TIME correspondents who worked on this week's revealing cover story it also proved to be the source of a moving assignment. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand, who covered Viet Nam for TIME from 1972 to 1974, discovered that his war experience provided an important link with the veterans he met. Says Hillenbrand: "For months after leaving Indochina, the innocent whoosh of a water heater could trigger the memory of a rocket attack...
...story was researched by Eileen Chiu and Brigid O'Hara-Forster and written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, who wrote a much acclaimed Essay on Viet Nam veterans (TIME, June 1). Says Morrow: "Viet Nam was a shattering blow to this country. Americans are slowly beginning to face that complicated era and are giving Viet Nam veterans the help, acknowledgment and respect that they deserve...