Word: napalmed
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...center has operated on some 3,000 children burned by napalm, white phosphorus ("Willie Pete" to the G.I.s) or the highly flammable JP4 jet fuel that sometimes finds its way to the local black market as cooking fuel. Earlier this year, its doctors treated a 15-year-old girl whose hands had been cruelly burned by an incendiary bomb years before. "I'm convinced," says the hospital's Dr. John Champlin, "that out in the bushes there are many people who'll come in after the war. We haven't hit 20% of the injuries...
...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...
Calley is a simple sort of soldier, from a working-class family and not too bright. Most American families who think the ADA is some sort of weed-killer know someone personally very much like Calley. News reports about "ground fire at Fire-base Six" and antiwar slogans about napalm can seem quite divorced from everyday realities of American life, but Calley is someone to identify with...
...fall, the State Department people overturned the table at which they were sitting and cowered behind it. Many students and faculty members shouted at them after they referred to the three students as "stormtroopers." Some people pointed out angrily that it was the U. S. government which was dropping napalm on innocent Vietnamese civilians, which was acting like the stormtroopers, not the students who threw eggs. Three faculty members, including myself, were later called to the Dean, but no action was taken against us; the discussions were calm and reasonable. One of the three students, who had been an activist...
...stop America's aggression against the people and land of Southeast Asia. No amount of courage and self-sacrifice by the Indochinese can stop raids by hundreds of B-52's based in Guam. No amount of resistance by Asian peasants can alter the decision to use napalm and fragmentation bombs against civilian targets. In the final analysis, it is we who must take responsibility for forcing the U. S. out of Southeast Asia...