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Article: The Vietnam War and the Teaching and Writing of Oral History: The Reliability of the Narrator.
- Article from:
- The Oral History Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
- Author:
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I have little sense of place
having grown up on the other side
of the world and returned home
to foreigners on foreign soil.
Not once does the family ask questions--as
if I'd gone off for the weekend
to fish or hunt. My place at the table
is the same, same chair, same silverware:
But as I glance up from my meal
I don't recognize the family portrait
hanging on the wall--their faces unfamiliar,
their eyes from another time or country,
another race.(1)
--Dale Ritterbusch
Unlike previous wars, the participants and interpreters of the Vietnam War have yet to reach any kind of consensus, and it is unlikely they ever ...