An exploration of how US' efforts to sacralize and repatriate the remains of some 2,000 soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam War might indicate some lingering corporeal and ontological uncertainties in the post-Vietnam era.

Thomas M. Hawley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington.

Acknowledgments ix
1. Body Trouble 1
2. From Unrecoverable to Unaccounted For 39
3. The Body of the Accounted-For Soldier 81
4. "Our Stateside MIAs": The Body of the Vietnam Veteran 115
5. Practices of Memorialization: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Tomb of the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier, and the POW/MIA Flag 158
6. The Ethics of Accounting 211
Epilogue. Same as It Ever Was 242
Notes 253
Bibliography 261
Index 277