Books
November, 1988
June 16, 1972, Arlington National Cemetery: Soldiers in full dress, some of the nation's most powerful people in attendance for the burial of John Paul Vann, harsh critic of our policies in Vietnam, a man who first served there in 1962 and would die there in a chopper crash a decade later; soldier, citizen, advisor, counterinsurgency expert—and prodigious leaker to such U.S. journalists as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan. It was at Vann's funeral that Sheehan committed himself to writing his b...
