How does events of the war inform the relationship between father and son? How does the story comment upon issues of wartime trauma and racial/ethnic identity? In what ways do you think past issues/concepts in this course are also echoed in the story? Nam Le’s short story

According to others, the Vietnam War was largely divided between sons and fathers. A whole generation of sons “fell prey to their adulthood, and a whole generation of fathers looked liars and traitors.” Vietnam symbolized the end of World War II, America’s “winning streak,” and possibly traditional American masculinity (CHOUKAL & Hiba, 2021). After the Vietnam War, Booth asserted that American culture remained patriarchal, but “had an abandoned and uninhabited center.” The shameful resignation of the last father of this era, just a few steps away from impeachment,” in chronological order, the assassination of the founding father on the one hand, the forced resignation of his successor in the middle, and finally the shameful resignation just a few steps away from impeachment step away,” she adds (Sak, 2022). The Vietnam War brought about a “physical and symbolic dispersion of power.” The father’s authority and his military example were morally challenged and politically destroyed ideologically in the 1950s and invalidated the Office of the President. More…