Word: antiwar
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...FAMILIAR and correct ingredients marked the counter-inaugural antiwar march last month. Banners and buttons, leaflets and posters, slogans and speakers--all reiterated themes initiated almost a decade ago. "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today" had metamorphosed into "Nixon, You Liar, Sign The Cease-fire," but the tone of voice was identical...
...cease-fire is now signed, and that demonstration was probably the last--the final performance directed by the antiwar movement...
Despite her busy days, Joan Abbott remembers the first 2/2 years after Joe's capture, when he was neither dead nor alive, just M.I.A. She remembers November 1969, when an antiwar group brought back a list of prisoners from Hanoi and Joe was recalled to life as a P.O.W. She saw Joe on television then, being paraded before microphones in Hanoi. Most of all, she remembers the whiplash of last fall, when peace was at hand and then suddenly the hand was gone. Before that promise faded again for a while, Joan decided Joe would be home before Christmas...
...agree with your prefatory observation that opponents of the war should show a more open-minded attitude toward the war's former supporters. On the other hand, I cannot accept your view that the fundamental goal of the antiwar movement was to have the United States "bug out" of South Vietnam and allow "the imposition of a Communist government or a coalition Communist government...
...doesn't it? At the time it didn't really mean much to me, a Texas emigrant who conceived of the Vietnam War as some little incursion one of my state's residents had badly botched. That next spring, there was an angry march back toward Cambridge following an antiwar rally in Boston. A likely place to head, since Harvard was a beehive of war complicity. We were told that, but most of us didn't really know for certain. Nor did we recall the demands that had spurred the occupation of University Hall a year earlier. Most...