f the returning Vietnam vet. It is not his intention to analyze the underlying causes, aside from showing the differences between the communal experiences of earlier wars and the individualized experience of the Vietnam war.
Heinemann's essay is important because it seems that the nation still has not come to grips with the Vietnam War, its causes, its effects. The last Presidential election focused in part on the attitude of Bill Clinton toward the Vietnam War and his anti-war actions of two decades earlier.
The nation has not faced the facts of the war, perhaps because it is still too proud or ignorant or too much in denial to admit we were wrong to have been there in the first place and to admit that we lost the war. We do not want to deal with the problems of the Vietnam vets because it will mean that we will have to deal wi
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