Few Americans born after the Tet Offensive know even the barest facts about the Vietnam War. I aim this generalization ... Rape; the massacres of women, children, and the elderly; military ...

No local men died in Vietnam in 1964, but as American involvement increased, so did the number of dead from Cuyahoga County: 17 in 1965, 48 in 1966, 89 in 1967, and 127 in 1968. The "Vietnamization" ...

More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent ... millions of American military men and women served honorably on the ground in a war that spanned a decade.