It was a heavy burden on the conscience to know that while you sat in Music 101, some contemporary--as "worthy" of a college educa...tion as you were, but one who had been denied the opportunity because he was poor, or black, or both--was getting his head blown off in Vietnam. Many students believed that such inequity was wrong, but couldn't bring themselves to redress it personally by refusing the student deferment. It's a dreadful combination: to act for self-protection yet at the same time to loathe oneself for acting that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. ...We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help--because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's just the trouble, Sam Houston--it's always my move. And damnit, I sometimes can't tell whether I'm making the right move or... not. Now take this Vietnam mess. How in the hell can anyone know for sure what's right and what's wrong, Sam?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I told them I'm not going to let Vietnam go the way of China. I told them to go back and tell those generals in Saigon that Lyndon... Johnson intends to stand by our word, but by God, I want something for my money. I want 'em to get off their butts and get out in those jungles and whip hell out of some Communists. And then I want 'em to leave me alone, because I've got some bigger things to do right here at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should declare war on North Vietnam.... We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Chri...stmas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Vietnam, some of us lost control of our lives. I want my life back. I almost feel like I've been missing in action for twenty-t...wo years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fanta...sies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »