Jun 01, 2012

Associated Press| by Margie Mason

She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava.

She will always be a victim without a name. Continue reading →

FROM A (ao dai) to Z (zoomie)

By Wayne Draper, Army Times Staff Writer, April 10, 1968

WASHINGTON–If, as Emerson said, language is the archives of history, then U.S. soldiers in Vietnam are writing history with words as well as weapons.

So many slang terms, Vietnamese words and specialized usages are used by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam that language poses a bit of a problem to the new man coming over. Until he picks up the current slang, he is marked as a recent arrival. Continue reading →