A veteran in Springfield will share his memories and what he’s discovered since then at the State Historical Society of Missouri. Larry Rottmann has been back to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 23 times.

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its origins, its horrors, its aftermath and the innate flaws and miscalculations ...

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.