Viet Nam is an entirely different kind of cause and memory. If anything, it's more tragic than that of WWII for the American soldiers involved, precisely BECAUSE the stakes were not the same. They did not return home knowing they had liberated concentration camps, but in many cases found out they had been cruelly lied to by the government. Many of them, like John McCain and John Kerry, still saw the good in a country that had in some ways let them down, and made a career of public service. Rapaire and his brothers (AND John Kerry) deserve our thanks.