Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen Page A

stories, 195–96
Gibson, Mel, 123
Gillam, Victor, 252
Gilroy, Paul, 68
Ginzburg, Natalia, 8
Giving, 296–97
Going Back (Ehrhart), 295
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler), 209
Gooks, 62–64, 140–41
Gordon, Avery F., 195
Gran Torino (film), 123–25, 126
The Green Berets (film), 125–26
Greene, Graham, 51, 142–43
Grenada, 6
Griffith, Philip Jones, 66
Griffiths, D. W., 117
Griswold, Charles L., 292
Guevara, Che, 3
Gulf War, 14, 49, 118
Gustafsson, Mai Lan, 157
Haeberle, Robert, 30
Halbwachs, Maurice, 10
Haldeman, Joe, 284
Hallyu, 132
Ha My memorial, 153–55
Hanoi: cemeteries in, 26; museums in, 29–30
Hanoi Hilton, 173
Haunting: of defeated people, 40
Hawaii, 7
Hayslip, Le Ly, 150–51, 195, 203, 207–8, 228, 262, 264, 266
Heinemann, Larry, 64, 235, 295
Helicopters, 117–20, 137–38
Herman, Judith Lewis, 228
Herr, Michael, 35–36, 103, 117, 122
Hirsch, Marianne, 268
Hmong people: films about, 123–25, 126; psychological trauma of, 234–35; transformation of trauma for, 281–83; in war stories, 242–43, 244–45
Ho Chi Minh: art of, 160–62; characterization of, 28–29; mausoleum of, 157–60; memorial to, 24; Vietnamese people’s view of, 158
Ho Chi Minh City. See Saigon
Ho Chi Minh Museum, 159
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 25
Hoi An, 154
Holden, William, 130
Hollywood, 13–14
Holocaust, 87, 258
Hong, Cathy Park, 215
Hudson, Rock, 130
Human waste, 243–45
Hussein, Saddam, 49
Hwang Suk-Yong, 139–41
Hyde, Lewis, 296
Ieng Sary, 299
Imperial powers, 139
Industry of memory: casualties of war and, 156–57; components of, 107–8; ghosts of war and, 183–87; inequities in, 183–84; vs. memory industry, 106; power and, 107, 108; prisoners of war and, 172–73; propaganda in, 114–15; of small country vs. superpower, 157–89; structures of feeling in, 107; in the United States, 108–28; weapons and, 166–67
In Every Neighborhood ( O moi xom; Sinh), 175, 177
In the Year of the Pig (film), 119
Invisible Man (Ellison), 63
Iraq War, 2, 6–7, 14, 42, 83
Irish Americans, 201
Islamists, 95
Iyer, Pico, 109
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, 135
James, William, 232
Japanese army, 227–28
Japanese goods, 140
Jarhead (film), 118
Jeffords, Susan, 145
Jewish Americans, 201
Jin, Ha, 244
Johnson, Chalmers, 115–16
Jo Sung Mo, 151
Journey from the Fall (Tran), 233–34
Just forgetting: art in, 286–87; capitalism and, 285, 295–96; vs. forgetting, 279, 297; forgiveness and, 279–80, 286–95; gift giving in, 296–97; imagining utopia in, 285–86; just memory in, 297; path toward, 283; rarity of, 284; reconciliation and, 295–96; release of suffering for, 280–83; vs. unjust forgetting, 284
Just memory: description of, 17; ethics of recognition in, 19; importance of, 16–17; for just forgiveness, 297; methods of dealing with excessive memories in, 17–18; moral priority of, 68; prerequisites for, 283; requirements for, 18
Kant, Immanuel, 291
Karlin, Wayne, 119, 295
Kar Savuth, 85
Kennedy, John F., 125
Khieu Samphan, 299
Khmer Rouge, 254, 255, 268–69; Cambodian casualties of, 7; ethics of recognition and, 83–93; good vs. evil and, 95–96; humanity vs. inhumanity and, 97–100; as laughing matter, 93–94; length of regime of, 129; monuments to, 297–99; prosecution of, 289–90; vs. terrorists, 95
“Khong Khoc O California” (“Don’t Cry in California”; Thiep), 280
Kim, Kyung Hyun, 145
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1–3, 50, 62, 153, 273, 291
Kingsolver, Barbara, 273
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 194–95, 225, 277
Kinnell, Galway, 213
Kipling, Rudyard, 251
Kissinger, Henry, 26
Korea: antiwar memories of, 139–49; criticism of United States by, 151; culture of, 132–33, 151–52; economy of, 130–31, 149–50, 151–52; film industry of, 144–49; number of Vietnam casualties from, 156; subimperial power of, 139, 152; U.S. patriotism and, 152–53; vs. Vietnam, 133–34; Vietnamese brides in, 143; Vietnamese people’s memories of, 150–51; Vietnam soldiers from, 136–55, 150–51; Vietnam War memorials in, 136–39;