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The author and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to reprint copyrighted materials:

For the poetry:

Excerpt from “The Young Dead Soldiers” from Collected Poems, 1917–1982 by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © 1985 by The Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

“Facing It” from Dien Cai Dau © 1988 by Yousef Komunyakaa. Published by Wesleyan University Press. Used by permission.

For the illustrations:

7	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
10, left	Courtesy of the Stetson University Library Archives.
10, right	US National Archives and Records Administration, Courtesy: Jimmy Carter Library.
19	Courtesy of the US Senate Historical Office .
26	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
39	Courtesy of Andrus Burr.
42	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
43	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
48	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
57	© The Washington Post/Getty Images.
64	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
74	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
78	Diana Walker/ The LIFE Images Collection/ Getty Images.
79	Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, © Washington Post.
84	Photograph by Ed Malcik.
85	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
98	Photograph by Ed Carlos/Courtesy of Lindy Lain Hart.
100	Sisse Brimberg/National Geographic Creative.
103	MacNelly Ed: © 1982 MacNelly, Inc, Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
108	Courtesy of the Digital Archive of Fort Benning and the Maneuver Center of Excellence.
122	Photograph by C. Bruce Forster.
141	Washington Post, © The Washington Post/ Getty Images.
140	From The Courrier Journal, 11/14 © 1982 Gannett-Community Publishing. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of this Content without express written permission is prohibited.
151	Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.
155	Courtesy of Lindy Lain Hart.
164	Courtesy of Lindy Lain Hart.
165	©1994. Courtesy of Darrell Acree.
167	©1994. Courtesy of Darrell Acree.
169	Detail of photograph by Carol Highsmith. Courtesy of Chesley, LLC.
171	Photo by Mark Gulezian/QuickSilver Photographers, Takoma Park, MD.
176	© Thomas S. England/ The LIFE Images Collection/ Getty Images.
178	© Leigh Vogel/ WireImage Collection/ Getty Images.
180	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
182	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
186	By permission of the United States Postal Service. My thanks to Champion Stamp Co. for providing the image file.
188	Courtesy of Gail Stiltner.
192	US Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Jayme Pastoric.
198	Courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
200	Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
204	Photograph by James Reston, Jr.
205	Photograph by James Reston, Jr.
207	Courtesy of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects.
208	Photograph by James Reston, Jr.

All photographs in the color insert are courtesy of the Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, with the exception of the design entry panels by Joseph E. Brown with sculpture designs by Frederick Hart on pages 14 and 15, for which the credit is as follows: A Memorial to the Veterans of Vietnam: Competition Entry 579, Courtesy of EDAW, Inc.

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