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Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam

Edited by Bernard Edelman, For the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission
Reviewed by By Gaddis Smith
Winter 1985/86
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Edited by Bernard Edelman, For the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission
Norton
1985
316 pp.
$13.95

A moving collection of letters written during the years of American combat in Vietnam by soldiers to friends, family, wives and lovers. The sentiments range from "I would rather fight to stop communism in South Vietnam than in . . . Kansas City" to poignant anti-war poetry.