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A 7 page paper which examines how the theme and unique interpretation of the war are presented and considers its conclusions. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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perhaps more printed words and analysis than the two previous world wars combined. Why are authors and historians still debating Vietnam? Author Don Ringnalda observed in the Preface
to his 1994 book, Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War, "Much of Americas memory of Vietnam is focused on the hip wound inflicted on the proud myths... The uniqueness
of the war is one of the most powerful myths concocted by a national psychosis that seduces citizens into denying history or recalling it sentimentally" (vii-viii). Furthermore, according to
Ringnalda, "The best Vietnam writers transcend the psychosis of uniqueness" (viii). The late Walter H. Capps would certainly fall into this elite category, courtesy of his insightful 1982 text
(substantially updated for its 1990 second edition), The Unfinished War: Vietnam in the American Conscience. Capps, who had an impressive career as the former director of the Robert Hutchins
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; served as Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Barbaras University of California, where he taught a course on the influence of religion on
perceptions of the Vietnam War; and as a democratic congressman from California before his untimely death in 1997, sought to expose the national myths that have abounded about the War
(which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wars). He incisively explores and ultimately dismisses the assertion that the American government viewed the war as
a way of restoring an international prestige that had been badly damaged during the Korean War or that it was an instrument designed to flex some superpower muscle. Capps
commentary argues that myths about this war and its honorable mission and ideological intentions must be reinforced as a way of saving collective national face. In The Unfinished War,
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