War and Shadows : : The Haunting of Vietnam / / Mai Lan Gustafsson.
Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 3...
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