West Point Rendezvous: Notes on the "Vietnam Class"

The men ten years out of West Point— the place where the army’s ideals are kept—have known all of the bad and very little of the good of military life, says an author who has written about their ordeal in combat, and of the career army’s troubles back home. The attrition rate has been high—one way and another—and when class of ‘64 members, in and out of uniform, gathered to mourn their dead classmates, they were drawn by varieties of nostalgia, regret, and wonderment.