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Comparatively, Bao’s postwar experience mirrors that of American veterans in the sense of abandonment by their government and the lack of appreciation for the sacrifices made over decades of fighting and dying in a war. “Those who survived continued to live,” he says in the book. “But that will has gone, that burning will which was once Vietnam’s salvation. Where is the reward of enlightenment due to us for attaining our sacred war goals? Our history-making efforts for the great generations have been to no avail. What’s so different here and now from the vulgar and cruel life we all experienced during the war?” (Times) Clearly, Bao didn’t think of war as the driving force of progress, even though they won. The Sorrow of War showed the similarities between the VC and the American Veterans. The loneliness; fear, desire to bring home the missing or killed in action, PTSD, mental breakdowns, alcoholism and the struggle to return to a semblance of normalcy. Romanticism in times of war are few and far between. No need to keep looking for that story to read, I watched it being