Word: napalming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam veteran, and I don't think the American people really, really understand war and what's going on. We went into villages after they dropped napalm, and the human beings were fused together like pieces of metal that had been soldered. Sometimes you couldn't tell if they were people or animals. We have jets that drop rockets, and in the shells they have penny nails. Those nails-one nail per sq. in. [over an area] the size of a football field-you can't believe what they do to a human being...
...woman, one woman in the crowd, broke down and turned away and cried. Of the Vietnam War I think of two pictures, one of an American soldier cradling his terrified comrade in his arms, the other of a naked screaming Vietnamese child, running towards the camera, burning from napalm. And now with a clarity that is almost unendurable, Marcel Ophuls has captured through memory a portrait of war and callousness and humanity at its worst...
Gulfis just a corporation and that is perhaps the most important lesson to be taken from the entire debate. Gulf happens to be allied with a colonial dictatorship in its quest for profits. Other corporations are allied with comparable institutions, churning out medical supplies and napalm with the equanimity of good free marketeers. Hideous commodities and corporations converge with benign ones in a dense thicket...
...watch those pennies. But, oh, may I say how fortunate we are to have a man that will make, possibly somewhere, a few of those mistakes." At a $250-a-plate dinner in keeping with his more modestly financed campaign, McGovern denounced the war with such graphic descriptions of napalm, pineapple bombs and steel fleshettes that the audience seemed to applaud in relief at the end. Still, crowds were more attentive than usual. "He sounds more like a Democrat," said Frank Mankiewicz. "I don't think he'll ever be a good old boy, but I think...
...prisoners and all of Indochina into oblivion." Our present policy only offers America flag-draped coffins, wasted money, more POWs imprisoned in North Vietnam, aging wives and dying mothers in the States, and hundreds if not thousands of screaming Vietnamese wives and children fleeing from the reign of exploding napalm so methodically dropped by men who should return to a weary America. Until January, at the earliest, the decision lies with a two-faced administration...