The Vietnam generation, which now controls hiring, is uncomfortable with power and those who study it.

Irving revealed the "effects of the morbid Vietnam generation" on the plot of his novel.

But you could sense that separate peaces are being made as the Vietnam generation begins to reach 50.

And the Vietnam generation - however that cuts in this election - is strongly represented.

There were 26.8 million men in the Vietnam generation and 15.4 million of them were deferred, exempted or disqualified.

So were the other photographers of what became the Vietnam generation.

They were partly educated, after all, by the example of the Vietnam generation, and have the immense new technical aid of digital photography.

A15 The Vietnam generation is torn.

Still, he knew that for many members of the Vietnam generation, he would forever be identified with what they saw as a hugely failed policy.

Certainly not a filmmaker of the Vietnam generation, as Mr. Spielberg is.