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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. A treatise by the scholar Richard Hedd recurs throughout a novel set after this conflict, in which the protagonist dates his employer’s daughter Lana and his coworker Miss Mori. The protagonist of a novel is haunted by murdering the newspaper editor Sonny and the crapulent (15[1])major after he escapes this conflict. A (*) “man of two faces” acts as a spy for one side of this war (10[1])in the 2016 novel The Sympathizer. Kiowa’s death in a sewage field haunts Jimmy Cross’s platoon in a story collection set during this war. For (10[1])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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