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Article: Or close the wall up with our unsung dead. (Vietnam War Memorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 14, 1988
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TWENT-Y years after the shocks of 1968-the Tet offensive, the My Lai massacre, President Johnson's refusal to seek re-election, the antiwar demonstrations and riots-American society remains as scarred as ever by the war in Vietnam. In 1976 and 1982, opinion polls showed that more than 70% of the public felt that the war was more than a mistake; it was fundamentally wrong and immoral." In 1988 there are still clear divisions between those who think that the war was evil, ending for ever America's innocence and moral certainty, and those who are convinced that the war was a noble cause that could, and should, have been won.
Opponents of the war blame the ...