In its regular Thursday tabulation, the U.S. command in Saigon announced last week that American casualtiesfive killed in action and four woundedwere at the lowest combined count since early in 1965. For months American losses in Viet Nam have been declining in an almost steady curve.
The Viet Nam War, as the Pentagon papers seem to confirm, entered most Americans' consciousness almost surreptitiously, until in the later 1960s they found themselves fighting, to their own bewilderment, the longest war of their national history. Today the process seems reversed as the U.S. fades out of the war. No one is ready to declare...
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