Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy, christened by Caroline Kennedy, 9, with her mother Jacqueline standing alongside as matron of honor and a clutch of Kennedys near by. While earnestly praying that "this majestic ship" would sail the world's oceans in peace, Johnson noted that she might some day have to fight. For the fact is, said the President, indirectly referring to both Viet Nam and the Mideast, that "today, as throughout our history, we bear fateful responsibilities in the world." And, he added, "it has often been our strength and resolve which have tipped the scales of conflict against aggressors...
...petition now circulating in the Houses states an important principle that deserves strong support from undergraduates: men who cannot "in good conscience" fight in Vietnam should be offered an alternative form of service...
Price discussed and rejected the idea of extending conscientious objection to individual wars. "If you believe that some wars are necessary and justified -- wars to stop aggression, for example -- but that this particular war is a mistake of such an order that you cannot in good conscience fight in it, your decision is not a question of principle but of interpretation...
...Once the state has made by some orderly process a contrary decision to fight, then the integrity of the democratic process depends on our rallying behind that process even if we don't like...
...Revolutionary press, Tories and Redcoats were inevitably "brutes, whose tender mercies are cruelties," men who would have used germ warfare if only microbes had been discovered. To the Tory and British press, the rebels were just as inevitably ruffians, illiterates, mongrels and cowards who refused to face a fight squarely. During British Cavalry Colonel Banastre Tarleton's fiery raids in New York's rebellious upper Westchester County, Rivington's Gazette reported that "the rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp...