Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planes scar the countryside with napalm and fragmentation bombs. Warships and artillery bombard areas suspected of harboring guerrillas. Infantrymen burn huts. As villages and crops are destroyed, hundreds of thousands of citizens are left homeless and hungry. Meanwhile, the guerrillas grow stronger and bolder. Hit-and-run harassment has escalated to well-organized offensives. Last week the army lost 28 men as it broke a week-long siege of a town housing two beleaguered companies of constabulary troops...
...bureau chief, and is now back in Saigon for a brief stint. "The mark of Viet Nam is forever on me," he says. "My language is altered, my hair grayer, my eyes sadder. Hamburger Hill, My Lai, the Green Berets, assassinations, mistaken air strikes, refugees and kids with napalm burns. The U.S. may try to forget, but that will be hard...
...costs for the elderly as a Social Security benefit. Massive Federal aid helped stagnating elementary and secondary schools. The Model Cities program gave new hope to rotting urban centers. The list of achievements is lengthy. But in the end, another war overshadowed the War on Poverty, and the American napalm and bombs in a faraway land were reflected at home in the firebombed ghettos and the anguished college campuses...
...Four planes of the jet-type dropped their bombs together to destroy my Village and returned to shoot twice in the same day. They dropped eight napalm bombs, the fire from which burned all my things, sixteen buildings along with our possessions inside, as well as maiming our animals. Some people who didn't reach the jungle in time were struck and fell. Dying most pitifully. By the time the fire died down it was dark. Everyone came out of hiding to look at the ashes of their houses...
There's no way people in this country can understand what napalm is. You go into a place, and the people, they are just bent. It's incredible. When you go to a piece of something and you don't have any idea whether it's a human being or an animal [because of] what's been done to it. And you have to come home and live knowing you didn't have the guts to say it was wrong. A lot of guys had the guts. They got sectioned...