Word: feels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cong soldier setting out to battle is no more anxious to die than an American. The Vietnamese who have fought against the overwhelming power of the United States for the past four-and-a-half years are not of a different species from ours. Like people anywhere. the Vietnamese feel pain, have love affairs, like to dance, and carry pictures of their families in their wallets. The bravery and devotion of these people can't be explained by racial stereotypes: to understand why they fight, one needs to understand what they are fighting for, and what they are fighting against...
...What I think about when I can't sleep is the war I can't see or feel. People die and I live oblivious. What do I do? Go to a shrink or go to a doctor and ask him to find out what's wrong with me as I tell him where to look and make up things that I don't feel. Do I tell him with honesty that I just don't want to go into the Army to fight this war? Then am I chicken and will they scoff at me? Will I be affected...
President Nixon and his advisors are not yet convinced that the American people will settle only for immediate withdrawal; currently, the White House seems to feel that retaining some 200,000 American troops in Vietnam for ten years or more can be made acceptable to the American people. To disabuse them of this notion will probably require, at the least. months of mass demonstrations in favor of immediate withdrawal, and a greater percentage of Americans supporting such a policy than the 57 per cent reported in the last Gallup poll...
...There is a lot of fear that the SMC people are the old YSA people, and a desire that old left-wing splinter groups shouldn't dominate the movement," one Moratorium spokesman said yesterday. "On the other hand, they accuse us of unnecessary red-baiting, and feel that we sold out to the Democratic party...
...this is how you feel, do take the trouble to come to a few School Committee meetings and to read some of last year's issues of the Cambridge Chronicle, or even of the current ones. Radical improvements CAN be made in the Cambridge Schools if FOUR, not three, innovative candidates are elected to the School Committee. (There are four such candidates...