Word: gi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long since forgotten. Even at the time, if I remember rightly, they all seem to have been about the same three girls, tall and sunny with cascading curls that reached down to dust their great, husky shoulders, while they sang their way good-naturedly through the GI bases of the world...
They say that the Marines bring home even their dead, but apparently not their children. Yesterday's evening news reported the existence of numbers of abandoned children of American GI's and South Vietnamese women. Because of the racial particularism of the Vietnamese, these children are regarded as another shameful wound inflicted by the American presence. As such, we owe the Vietnamese the immediate removal of these our unwanted children, along with our napalm, our bombs, and our soldiers...
More than this, these children are owed reparations like the other war victims. Congressman Drinan has proposed reparations for the Vietnamese people. The U.S. Government has established benefits for GI's or for their surviving families. The nation owes these American children what it gives the acknowledged orphans of American GI...
This is his third year working for the Fund, which has aided draft resisters, GI's, "conspirators," and Black Panthers. "The relatively radical causes of relatively radical people," according to Spock...
...That picture in there of GI's storming the ramparts. That isn't the way it is. That picture makes me physically sick. We don't storm villages in Vietnam, we burn them; and these aren't soldiers we kill, but women and children. Do you know what a free fire zone is? Do you know that 60 per cent of all babies born in defoliated areas are malformed...