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[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/vietnam-the-war-that-killed-trust.html by Karl Marlantes 7/1/17 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/vietnam-the-war-that-killed-trust.html by Karl Marlantes 7/1/17 The New York Times] | ||
In the early spring of 1967, I was in the middle of a heated 2 a.m. hallway discussion with fellow students at Yale about the Vietnam War. I was from a small town in Oregon, and I had already joined the Marine Corps Reserve. | In the early spring of 1967, I was in the middle of a heated 2 a.m. hallway discussion with fellow students at Yale about the Vietnam War. I was from a small town in Oregon, and I had already joined the Marine Corps Reserve. | ||
=====Michael Herr, Whose Vietnam War Reporting Became Iconic, Dies At 76===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/24/483412772/michael-herr-whose-vietnam-war-reporting-became-iconic-dies-at-76 by Rose Friedman 24/6/16 npr] | |||
When Herr left to cover the Vietnam War for Esquire, he didn't bring a great amount of journalistic experience. At 27, he'd been an amateur film critic, written some travel pieces and had worked on Syracuse University's literary magazine. But by the time his book Dispatches came out 10 years later, none of that mattered. | |||
