Boston Globe to publish special report on Vietnam War

Vietnam: Shadows of a Distant War provides 25-year perspective on conflict

   Boston - April 25, 2000 - The Boston Globe will publish a special 20-page report on the Vietnam War, Sunday, April 30, the day that marks the 25th anniversary of the end of one of the most divisive wars in which the country has ever engaged.
   A quarter century after the fall of Saigon," said Globe Editor Matthew V. Storin, Vietnam still looms large in American history, politics, and culture. It changed the way we look at our government, and it changed an entire generation of Americans, including those who fought and those who didnt. The Vietnam War was one of those watershed events in U.S. history that requires perspective years later."
   Vietnam: Shadows of a Distant War" takes a critical look at the war through the eyes of a collection of outstanding writers, many of whom covered the conflict. Among them are Pulitzer Prize-winners David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan. Halberstam considers the incredible divisiveness that burned through America during the war years. Sheehan, conversely, sees silver linings in the way Americans learned to be more skeptical of government pronouncements.
    Vietnam: Shadows of a Distant War" is anchored by the journals of
H.D.S. Greenway, the Globe's editorial page editor, who covered the war both for Time Magazine and the Washington Post. He recently paid a return visit.
   The Globe's package also includes several reports by Globe staff editors and reporters. Ben Bradlee Jr. writes about Vietnam today, with its blend of capitalism and Leninism; reporter Charles A. Radin writes about Vietnam veterans; Mitchell Zuckoff provides a feature on the Vietnamese community in America; Marcella Bombardieri looks at the growing popularity of Vietnam-era studies on college campuses; and Mark Feeney examines the wars legacy in movies, books, and music .
   Also, four writers recount the painful choices they experienced in
the face of the military draft at the time: Sam Allis tells the way he finessed his way into a safe position; Bob Timberg went to war; Richard A. Knox angled for a medical 4-F status, and David Cramer fled to Canada. Allis and Knox are two additional Globe staff writing for this special report.
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