If there ever was a time worthy of its own vernacular, it is the Vietnam Era.  A generation split by peace and war spawned a library of fresh new words like no era before it.
 
The warriors found that the torch had been passed to them by an assassinated president.  It motivated them to bear any burden and to pay any price.  The best of this generation did ask what they could do for their country.
 
Here, you will find over 2,500 terms, acronyms, jargon, slang expressions, and various lingo transported to you by Vietnam servicemen who showed remarkable insight into their own generational place in history.
 
Much of this created language came about as a way to help these warriors excel in battle or came about as a way to help them cope emotionally with the everyday horrors of the war.  Some were just made up to entertain each other.
 
Their words were colored with beauty, sadness, hilarity, horror, ridicule, and irony.  It is not a language for the timid nor the politically correct.  But it is the language of reality.  A hard reality.