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⁴² Perhaps the only positive legacy of the war. It is important to add here that the vast majority of Vietnam War novels were and are being written by grunts who did not go to Vietnam as writers, and certainly not as students of literary history who were cognizant of post-modern theories of the novel. Their post-modern novels are blue-collar revelations of a blue-collar experience.

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