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Viet Nam spawned in the American mind a strange combination of tender, outraged sensibilities and deep callousness???an exaggerated sense that everything was wrong and an almost truculent indifference to things that really were dangerously awry. That was a measure of its divisiveness. BRING THE WAR HOME, the radical graffiti said, and sure enough, the Ohio National Guard shot down four Kent State students one spring afternoon as the allies moved into Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The US. After Viet Nam | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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