Download or read book Late Thoughts on an Old War written by Philip D. Beidler and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnam veteran and scholar draws on personal memories of his time in Vietnam, bringing the war back in chapters on vocabulary, music, literature, and film, and examining how the immediacy of Vietnam's costs is dealt with in an evasive way by America.