The "We-Win-Even-When-We-Lose" Syndrome: U.S. Press Coverage of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the "Fall of Saigon"

• Published in: American quarterly Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 329 - 352
• Main Author: Le Espiritu, Yen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: College Park Johns Hopkins University Press 01.06.2006
• Subjects: Anniversaries; Foreign policy; Journalism; Media coverage; Narratives; Politics; Popular culture; Refugees; Soldiers; Southeast Asian culture; Truces & cease fires; United States history; Veterans; Vietnam War; Vietnamese; War; World wars; United States > US

Through analyses of U.S. press coverage of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, this article examines how U.S. popular culture has dealt with the "difficult memory" of the Vietnam War, a war that left the United States as neither victor nor liberator. As a morally controvers...