Triangular quarto. (16)pp. Designed and produced by Caren Heft at his Arcadian Press, the book recounts the story of LCDR Smokey Tolbert, a pilot shot down over Vietnam, and the lengthy, exhausting, bureaucratically obscure return of his remains. The suggestion, of course, is that all was not as it seemed in the incident. With Tolbert as exemplar, Govenar's text and Heft's design addresses, with increasing vehemence, the social conditioning that drives American boys toward the military - the games they play, the ads they watch on television, the movies that define their cultural consciousness, the news that gets filtered through various propagandistic media until it reaches them just as their are forming a sense of self. The book is centered on Vietnam and its obvious controversy as a prop for government agendas of power and greed. At pages facing Govenar's text are select records of those killed in action, combatants and civilians alike. Page borders alternate between patriotic stock images of flags and stars, and statistics of Vietnam War casualties. But other elements apply the sentiments to a broader history of warfare and warmongering, among them a concluding poem by WWI soldier and poet Wilfred Owen and an accompanying glass figure of an infantryman with death count on the reverse, and a WWII first aid kit. The reader is then urged toward a critique of all the military conflicts that have happened in the intervening years between Vietnam and the 2005 publication date, among them the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Book, glass figure, and first aid kit housed in scorched wood box lined with silk. Also included in the box is a toy plane and an American flag folded into a triangle, as customary for military funerals. A tremendous critique of the military industrial complex and its waste. Fine.