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Publication: August 2005

General Note: Shark by Steve Kemper
It's Over! - Smithsonian readers share their memories - joyous, tearful, poignant- of the end of World War II, 60 years ago this month.
Mystery Man of Stonehenge by Richard Stone

Return to Da Lat by Stanley Karnow Photographs by Catherine Karnow - An idyllic retreat during the Vietnam War, the former French colonial hill town still retains much of its traditional charm, as a celebrated Asia correspondent discovered

World's Unlikeliest Bestseller by Bruce Watson
E-Gad! by Elizabeth Royte photographs by Chris Jordan
Building the Bomb by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Departments
Indelible Images: Footloose by Anne Broache
Points of Interest: In the Fast Lane by Preston Lerner
Phenomena & Curiosities: Baked Alaska by Laura Helmuth
Presence of Mind: Ghost of a Chance by Scott Weidensaul

Editor's Note: War Stories
From the Secretary: The Price of Ambition
Letters
The Year We Were Born
Lewis and Clark: A Bittersweet Homecoming
Just Looking: Ready for His Close-Up
Around the Mall
This Month in History
Books: Bound for Canaan; The Perfectionist
The Last Page: Give Weeds a Chance

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Citation: Smithsonian, 999Serial345724. No Date, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=999Serial345724, Accessed 25 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 999Serial345724, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive