"Regret to Inform"
Watch Barbara Sonneborn's Vietnam documentary, winner of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, in full.
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Read the Barbara Sonneborn Table Talk discussion of "Regret to Inform" which investigates the devastating toll of war on the homefront.

Looking back on Vietnam Salon presents a weeklong retrospective on the war and its consequences, at home and abroad.
By Fiona Morgan [04/24/00]

Returning to a place we've never seen Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer-prize winning author of "Fire in the Lake" says Americans still get Vietnam wrong because we can't stop looking at our collective American navel.
By Fiona Morgan [04/28/00]

"My only regret" Daniel Ellsberg reflects on the role the Pentagon Papers played in ending the Vietnam War.
By Daryl Lindsey [04/28/00]

The Vietnam debacle The revisionists who believe that the war was just -- and winnable -- are rewriting a history they don't understand.
By Stanley Karnow [04/27/00]

The sound of Vietnam How wizard Walter Murch created a soundtrack of horror for Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."
By Michael Sragow [04/27/00]

Bittersweet orange The mysteries of a fleeting romance in Hanoi: He put his chicken in my soup. How should I respond?
By W. Madrigal [04/27/00]

What did we learn from Vietnam? Part 2 Author Todd Gitlin, filmmaker Frieda Lee Mock and journalist Andrew Lam on the lasting effects of the war.
By Fiona Morgan [04/25/00]

What did we learn from Vietnam? Bobbie Ann Mason, Michael Lind, Philip Caputo, Jonathan Schell and others talk about how the war changed the U.S., and the world.
By Fiona Morgan and Daryl Lindsey [04/24/00]

Photograph by Larry Burrows/ Life Magazine/ Time Inc©: Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie reaches out to a stricken comrade after a 1966 firefight.

Stories from our archives

Seymour Hersh The man who broke the story of Vietnam's My Lai massacre is still the hardest-working muckraker in the journalism business.
By David Rubien [01/18/00]

Searching for Binh Hoa Hoping to find an obscure Vietnam War killing field, our correspondent discovers that some lessons of history teach themselves.
By Rolf Potts [08/10/99]

The art of survival Oscar winners Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders salute America's Vietnam War POWs in the awe-inspiring "Return With Honor."
By Michael Sragow [08/26/99]

An unnecessary crock: Michael Lind's "Vietnam: The Necessary War" For some thinkers, that ol' international communist conspiracy will never die.
By Judith Coburn [11/24/99]

Unarmed and under fire: An oral history of female Vietnam vets "All we had was prayer. And I did a lot of that."
By Austin Bunn [11/11/99]

Prisoners of a crappy war I don't regret protesting Vietnam, but "Return With Honor" has humbled me before the heroism of our military.
By Anne Lamott [07/08/99]

The new North Vietnam A visit to Hanoi and environs reveals the complicated legacy of the war.
By Jeff Greenwald [03/10/99]

Elsewhere on the Web

From the New York Times
The American War Photo Project
The New York Times' series of photos of the Vietnam War from North Vietnam's perspective.

From The Virtual Wall
A virtual representation
of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C.

From The Vietnam War Internet Project
Images, documents and oral histories
from the Vietnam War.

From UC Berkeley
Recalling the Vietnam War
Interviews with decision makers and commentators on the legacy of the Vietnam War from the Institute of International Studies' "Conversations with History" series at University of California at Berkeley.

From the Associated Press
Fall of Saigon: 25 Years Later
The AP's look back at the Vietnam war includes an analysis, photos, video and a timeline.

From the Public Broadcasting System
Regret to Inform
PBS's site dedicated to the documentary contains background information, links to resources and other program information.