Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:44 PM 5/10/04 -0400, Buzz Hausner wrote: >I gasp in disbelief that Marc Small should only be partly correct in his >analysis. What really brought American opinion to view the War in Viet >Nam with revulsion was not the action of the students...indeed, I was an >active protester...it was our mothers who finally stood up and said (in >essence), "Hell, No! Not with my boy you don't" It wasn't photographs >of terrified, naked children, nor of Vietnamese executioners that caused >our mothers' to wonder for what their sons died, it was the broadcast >news film and tape of Americans fighting in the jungles, Americans >screaming in pain, and Americans coming home dead. ========================== Buzz I am sorry to add to your repiratory ailments, but read the Gallup and Harris polls in 1974 and 1975: there was a positive and decided majoirty in favor of "winning" the Viet-Nam War, whatever that meant;. My own mother and father wished that I would go to Viet-Nam, and my father went to his grave regretting that I was "denied" the opportunity. I chose my own pace: by the time I was commissioned, they were pulling all the troops back, so I missed this epic opportunity to particpate in a war in which I did not believe. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!