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...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...
...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...
...getting five thousand letters a day yelling for our heads because some nitwit in public relations says we're giving the dogs better treatment than the GI...
...Well, the GI's should definitely get equal treatment with the dogs...
...only way that I have been able to understand the war is to pretend that 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 eighty thousand Americans. All of America could not begin to digest that much sorrow...