After the Good War, Volume 135

The fall of Saigon in 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War—more than fifty years later, its memory is already fading, although its cultural impact remains. Beginning in the mid-1950s with the Republic of South Vietnam in a civil war with North Vietnam over communism, the United States’s military commitment rose to half a million soldiers, airmen, and sailors. Among them was Jerome Loving, a twenty-four-year-old college graduate. Over the next two decades, the conflict took the lives of near…