The Living-Room War
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America -- not on the battlefields of Vietnam" -Marshall McLuhan, Montreal Gazette, May 16, 1995
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Local newspapers also relayed information about the war, sometimes through the publication of soldiers' letters home, which often included gut-wrenching stories about terrible battles with the Viet Cong, senseless gibbing, and plenty of confusion and frustration about military operations and U.S. goals.
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