Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Foreword by Steve Rees ; Preface ; Featured Articles; Searching for Vietnam's M.I.A.s; Vietnam's Shadow over Abu Ghraib ; The Wall: Entering the Aura of the Dead ; The Spat- Upon Vet Revisited ; Annals of the New Left: Dissing Golub ; Poetry; Introduction; Black Silks, Black Mud

Dignum et Justum Est Shades ; War Birthed Me ; It's Hard to Tell Sometimes... ; Criticism and Reviews; Bombing for the Hell of It (Michael Uhl and Carol Brightman); Excerpt from an Interview with Robert Strange McNamara ; Revising the Meaning of the Vietnam War ; The Problematic: Penny Lewis Repairs Some Misconceptions About the Vietnam War

Apocalypse Now? The Strange Jeremiads of Christopher HedgesDéjà Vu All Over Again: Notes on a Jonathan Schell Review ; An Enfant Terrible Stumbles Upon the Vietnam War ; Veteran War Crimes Testimony, 1969-1971: An Annotated Clipping File; Meeting the Enemy: A Marine Goes Home ; Combat and Reconciliation: A Vietnam Vet Returns to Heal Old Wounds; Armed with the Facts

A Skillful Chronicle of Kerry's Conflicts War and Remembrance ; Warrior's Honor and the Ordeal of Survival ; That's Vietnam, Jake ; The Jaws of Victory: A Historian Argues We Could Have Won-and Nearly Did Win-the Vietnam War ; War and Madness ; Obsessed by Vietnam

How We Bombed in Laos On the Lam from Vietnam ; Travels with Charlie ; The God That Resigned ; Letters Home ; Gung Ho ; The Chosen: An Essay; Some Notes on Being a Veteran in America; PTSD; The Politics of PTSD; PTSD from the Inside Out ; Surviving PTSD ; In My Activist Voice; Heeding the Call; With Paul and Do' at My Lai