Word: gi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wyoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Vietnamese have been killed and probably 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest...
...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wvoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Viet-????? 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest that much sorrow...
...government's policy must be changed and it will only be changed by determined action. Opponents to the war-conscientious citizens everywhere-must act to put morality before personal safety or expediency. The GI knows no safety and the draft resister is not being expedient...
...writing letters and lobbying congressmen if you must, but act. Act with the danger of the GI and the sacrifice of the resister in mind and act as forcefully as your outrage dictates. Make today more meaningful by resolving that because of your efforts there won't be 5000 more to mourn for on the next Memorial...
...expensive. It will take billions of dollars to get national health insurance in this country, but we spend billions of dollars in both tangible as well as intangible ways for not doing it and these costs will continue to escalate. So, just as we spent $17 billion for the GI Bill after World War II, the figures now show that the return is around $25 billion, from the standpoint of their ability to pay higher taxes, the skills that they have developed, the contributions they have made...