Question

Four real ID pictures of the author’s family taken during this conflict fill a page of a 2017 graphic memoir that opens with the author in labor, titled The Best We Could Do. In (15[1])a novel set after this conflict, which forms the backdrop of The Mountains (15[2])Sing, the protagonist dates his employer’s daughter Lana and his coworker Miss Mori. The protagonist of a novel is haunted (15[1])by murdering the newspaper (15[1])editor Sonny (15[1])and the crapulent major after he escapes this conflict. A (*) “man of two faces” acts as a spy (10[1])for one side of this war (10[1])in the (10[1])2016 (10[1])novel (10[1])The Sympathizer. (10[3])Kiowa’s (10[1])death in a sewage field haunts Jimmy Cross’s platoon in a story collection set during this war. (10[1])For 10 points, name this war that provides the setting of Tim O’Brien’s collection The Things They Carried. ■END■

ANSWER: Vietnam War [or Second Indochina War or Chiến tranh Việt Nam or Kháng Chiến Chống Mỹ]
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