{"id":2227,"date":"2015-03-12T13:50:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/vietnamwar\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2015-03-12T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:50:05","slug":"forty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/vietnamwar\/forty-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty years on"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a distinguished body of writings by American veterans detailing the boredom and horror of combat as well as post-war traumas within a country that shunned the returning veterans. Some veterans returned to Vietnam and have written prose and poetry detailing their experiences. […] A growing body of translated works by Vietnamese now joins this memorial debate focusing on the legacy of the war from Vietnamese perspectives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Subarno Chatterji, ‘Will there be peace again?’ American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam\/American War’ in Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson, eds., The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature<\/em>, Edinburgh University Press, 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a distinguished body of writings by American veterans detailing the boredom and horror of combat as well as post-war traumas within a country that shunned the returning veterans. Some veterans returned to Vietnam and have written prose and poetry detailing their experiences. […] A growing body of translated works by Vietnamese now joins  Continue Reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n