No Glory in the Jungle

They came with flags in their hearts. Young men raised on the clean narratives of World War II — of clear enemies, righteous causes, and homecoming parades — arrived in the jungles of Vietnam to find a war that refused every category they had been given to understand it. There was no front line. There was no liberated city to march through. There was only heat, rot, fear, and the maddening impossi...