Books
June, 1994
While we may be able to normalize relations with Vietnam, what has become of the millions of Americans whose lives were shattered by the war? That is the question posed by Jim Wilson in The Sons of Bardstown: 25 Years of Vietnam in an American Town (Crown). This is a solemn report on how the wounds and deaths of the young men from a small Kentucky town during the war continue to haunt it today. It is also a study of the damage done, not in terms of bodies or dollars but in terms of the life and...
