Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy, but monuments are erected to their memories. They had clubs and bullwhips in Christ's day but they didn't have rednecks and Ku Klux Klansmen walking along dropping tear-gas grenades beside the helpless victims. 1 have seen numerous dead and wounded on the battlefield, but 1 have never seen enemy wounded subjected to such barbarity...
Bothered by all the moral, legalistic and unrealistic arguments over Viet Nam, Military Historian S.L.A. Marshall offers some blunt battlefield advice in the current New Leader. "Long service with the military," admits retired Brigadier General Marshall, "colors my own view." It also "nourishes the suspicion that peace is so important that its safeguarding should not be entrusted exclusively to the judgment of civilians...
...wounds of the battlefield casualty often cry out for the most advanced skills of modern medicine. But the battlefield surgeon has always worked against forbidding odds. Aseptic surgery is practically impossible in a tent operating room of the sort that has gone almost unchanged for 100 years. The canvas is far from airtight, and temperature control is so bad that an infusion bottle might freeze and shatter in mid-operation. The lab work that is essential in today's medicine and surgery is usually out of the question...
...happens to meet the two young people and, taking pity on them, gives them a safe-conduct that ironically leads to their deaths. Yet the two narratives could hardly be more intimately related. They are the gorgeous upper side and slimy reverse of a banner dragged across a muddy battlefield...
What can the U.S. do in Vietnam? If we withdraw, Thailand will be the next battleground. The Communists have already set up a radio station that broadcasts propaganda to Thailand and they have infiltrated several northern provinces. Withdrawal will thus simply change the battlefield. Most of Thailand is loyal and committed to freedom in the Western sense; but one province has always been separatist and will provide the basis for an attack which the Thai people do not want. But it does no good to prolong the agony in Vietnam if we do nothing to strengthen Thailand...