... print you read about Vietnam" and that "hid there in the newspapers and magazines and held to your television screens for hours after the set was turned off for the night, an after-image that simply wanted to tell you at last what somehow had not been told" [p. 218]. A final critique this paper will examine is Herr's critique in Dispatches of ... "A lot of things" such as Hollywood war movies, "before you could learn anything at all" [p. 210]. Herr recognizes experienced youth soldiers in his dispatches when he notes a soldier with his face "all painted up for night walking now like a b...

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