(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) MICHAEL HERR: You know, I'm a writer so I have a prejudice. You know, I mean, I went to Vietnam in the first place because the assumption that this was television ...

Today’s officers may lose their Herr (meaning Mr.) as a result of a 1968 protest by a group of German noncoms who complained that such pompous jawbreakers as “Jawohl, Herr Oberstleutnant ...

Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel “Dispatches” and through such films as ...