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Gr 9 Up—Combat veteran and professor Milam (Not A Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War) has compiled 37 essays on what George Herring calls in the foreword "the war that never seemed to go away." In "Missing Home," Milam points out that popular culture can fill a gap for soldiers far from home and living under the stress of war. In addition, the war influenced American culture throughout active fighting and long after. Each chapter contains between three and five essays that range in le...Log In or Sign Up to Read More