Vietnam
Vi·et·nam (-näm′, -nam′)
country on the E coast of the Indochinese Peninsula: ruled by the French from mid-19th cent. until 1945; partitioned into two republics (North Vietnam & South Vietnam) in 1954; war between the two republics (see Vietnam War) ended with the defeat of South Vietnam & reunification of the two republics (1976) as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: 127,246 sq mi (329,566 sq km); pop. 64,412,000; cap. Hanoi
Etymology: Vietnamese Viet, name of people + nam, south
A Gay VietnamVeteranöThey gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.
We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them helpöbecause the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.
This is not an invasion of Vietnam.
Patriotism inVietnamtook the communist road because it was the only one available. It had the appeal of a dream, a dream of social justice.
I used to seeVietnam as a war rather than a country.
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since theVietnam War.
I went toVietnam to take the train: people have done stranger things in that country.
To win inVietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
My mother thinks Vietnam is somewhere near Panama.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.
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