Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam

Abstract

Dragons Jaw tells about the historically important events of the war in Vietnam that took place over and around a bridge known bv Americans as the "Dragon's Jaw." Authors Coonts and Tillman, however, in telling it as an epic story, are engaging in mythmaking, building on the insecure foundation of questionable American exceptionalism that got the United States into the war in the first place.