Local deaths reflect a war that befuddled America

Local deaths reflect a war that befuddled America

In late July of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the nation, an attempt to answer an increasing volume of questions he was getting from parents with children fighting a war in Vietnam. "Why must young Americans, born into a land exultant with hope and with golden promise, toil and suffer and sometimes die in such a remote and distant place?" he said, reflecting on the mood of...