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Vietnam War Army veteran and retired Lt. Gen. Josiah Bunting III will lead a free, public discussion Nov. 5 at the University of Louisville about “Forty Years Later: America at the End of the Vietnam War.”

Bunting’s talk will begin at 6 p.m. in Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library (directions).

Bunting is president of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research on problems of violence, aggression and dominance in society.

A Rhodes scholar, Bunting is an alumnus of and the 1995-2003 superintendent of Virginia Military Institute, where he oversaw the enrollment of the school’s first female cadets; he also was president of Briarcliff College and Hampden-Sydney College. He was in active Army duty from 1966 to 1973. He is also chairman of the National WWII Memorial in Washington.

Bunting’s books include the novel “The Lionheads,” about dilemmas that Army leaders confront, and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

This event is part of the McConnell Center's three-part lecture series on "America at the End of War." It is co-sponsored by the university's Vietnam War Commemoration Program, which honors Vietnam War veterans and their families.