Word: antiwar
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...came of age just in time for Viet Nam ?almost amounted to this century's equivalent of the War Between the States. But now, here and there, are signs that the terrible poisons and destructive intractabilities of the time are yielding to some charity and acceptance. Many antiwar activists are learning a certain sympathy for the Viet Nam veterans that they never displayed before. Says Journalist Doug Kamholz, an antiwar radical in the '60s: "I have been feeling guilty about blaming the war on the warriors. I never yelled 'baby killer,' but I didn't oppose it either...
...realized that at the same time I was flying to Harvard for my freshman year, he was on a ship steaming for Viet Nam." Atlanta Correspondent Anne Constable, who demonstrated against the war as a student at Simmons College, was struck by "how antiwar politics had prevented me and my generation from separating the war from the warrior. I hope we can finally welcome them home...
DIED. Paul Green, 87, dramatist and screenwriter whose Broadway successes include the 1926 Pulitzer-prizewinning In Abraham's Bosom and the 1936 antiwar play Johnny Johnson, and who in 1937 wrote the historical spectacle The Lost Colony, the first of his 15 outdoor "symphonic dramas" that are staged across the country, mostly for summer tourists; in Chapel Hill...
Agreeing with ROTC recruiters, Hyten says the biggest cause of recent increases in enrollment is fading antiwar sentiment. "I don't think people have forgotten Vietnam," he adds. "I just think they look at it from a different perspective. There were mistakes. It was a bad time. They understand...
...rights, the young made their presence felt in almost every aspect of national life. And as the decade ended they provided the great body of the visible opposition to the Viet Nam War. Their activity peaked in the angry campus protests that followed the killing of four students during antiwar demonstrations at Kent State University in 1970. Soon after that, to the shock of many of their elders who expected them to persist and grow as a permanent political force, the young moved offstage...