Let us leave in suspension such debates about the economic costs of the War and look at another kind of cost, a kind more subtle, pervasive, and continuing, a kind that conditions in a thousand ways the temper of American life today. This cost is psychological, and it is, of course, different for the winner and the loser. Robert Penn Warren
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The Vietnam War changed the world in many ways. It altered the way that wars are fought, just as it altered the way that America sees itself. Even if the war is over, the psychological changes are still being felt. They show up in our attitudes towards foreign policy, our national identity, and our level of trust in government.

But no one who was alive during the war can forget what it did to their minds and hearts. The more abstract impact of the war on American culture is perhaps best summed up by this famous comment from civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.: "The greatest gift of my life has been my children. If I had to choose between them and my life's work, I would choose my children."

Source: The Legacy Of The Civil War

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