New York, N.Y. A Thomas Dunne Book (St. Martin's Press), 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.75 inches. 96 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Scratch on rear cover. Includes Foreword by Jan C. Scruggs; In the Beginning by Maya Ying Lin; Preface: War and Memory; Contributors; Photo Credits; and Acknowledgments. In August of 1992, in anticipation of the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (November 13, 1992), LIFE magazine sent a group of 15 reporters, photographers, assistants, interns, and editors to put together its salute to the memorial. From dawn to dawn, LIFE's reporters and photographers documented an extraordinary procession of people. In it was pain, joy, lonesome tears, rain, darkness, and the welling up of memories as solid as the names engraved on the wall. Peter Meyer is a former News Editor of Life magazine and the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed The Yale Murder and Death of Innocence. Over the course of his three-decade journalism career Meyer, who holds a masters degree in history from the University of Chicago, has touched down in cities around the globe, from Bennington to Baghdad, and has written hundreds of stories, on subjects as varied as anti-terrorist training for American ambassadors to the history of the 1040 income tax form. His work has appeared in such publications as Harper's, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York, Life, Time and People. Meyer also writes and edits for the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, where he is a Senior Visiting Fellow. More