I wonder if, in years to come, some bright scholar will name Maya Lin as the fulcrum upon which everything we believe about dying in service to one’s country shifted. Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., pulled off something magical and strange with ...
“For some reason Orange County has always been a place where people from other parts of the country come to die,” said Joseph Luckey, a veteran Orange County coroner’s investigator who has been identifying the dead since his tour as a mortuary sergeant in the Vietnam War. Many of the ...
Iron Man’s origin was rooted in theVietnam War, and the hero battled the Chinese troublemaker, Mandarin, and a Vietcong villain named Wong Chu. Despite occasional unflattering portrayals, Marvel’s comics depicted a world of color and diversity, even with the company’s misfit heroes, the ...