Introduction: sounding the human dimensions of war -- Remembering beginnings and endings: the fiftieth anniversary at Pearl Harbor and the Enola Gay controversy at the National Air and Space Museum -- The bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory -- Japanese films about the Pacific war -- Our forgotten war: the Korean war in Korean and American popular culture -- Fragmentation in American and Vietnamese war fiction -- American and Vietnamese poetry of witness:
bridge over troubled waters -- Moral judgment in war and crimes against humanity -- My Pacific war revisited -- A double exposure of the war -- Through American eyes: combat experiences and memories of Korea and Vietnam -- The Korean war at the dinner table -- Myth of the heroic soldier and images of the enemy -- The age of the world target -- Controversies surrounding the Asia-Pacific war: the Tokyo war crimes trial -- Tutoring democracy: Michigan State University and
the politics of reform in South Vietnam -- American wars within world history -- The Indian wars and the Vietnam war.