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...from i-de-o-lo-gi-cal divisions...
...only way I have been able to understand the war is to pretend that each time a GI or a Vietnamese dies, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that had died. By now over a million Vietnamese have died and probably eighty thousand Americans. All of America could not begin to digest that much sorrow... We are left with the freedom, and also the necessity of inventing ourselves. Instead of finding meaning in our lives, we must first find a direction. The Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition presents them with the necessity...
...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...