"The incommunicability of the experience of the Vietnam veterans has been a primary narrative in Vietnam War representation. This silence has been depicted as a consequence of an inconceivable kind of war, one that fit no prior images of war, one that the American public would refuse to believe. The importance of the Vietnam Veterans memorial lies in its communicability, which in effect has mollified the incommunicability of the veterans' experience."

• The War:
  http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/index.html
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial:
  http://www.nps.gov/vive/
• The Virtual Wall:
  http://www.virtualwall.org/