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Stanley Karnow

Historians have failed to help Americans understand what the war was all about. So charges this scholar, author, and Vietnam veteran.

Instead of fading away, as some thought it would, interest in the Vietnam War seems to be growing steadily. Last year all three networks devoted hour-long specials to the tenth anniversary of the end of the war, with weighty pronouncements on the meaning of it all.

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