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...people gathered for a memorial service honoring Marine Lance Corporal Darwin Judge. He was one of the last four Americans killed during the final evacuation of Viet Nam. His parents had the added pain of knowing that in the confusion, Darwin's body had been left behind in Saigon. But Postman Henry Judge displayed no rancor. Said he: "We've always stood up for the Lord, our country and the flag." Added Ida Judge: "You know, if it's your turn to die -and only the Lord knows that-what more beautiful way to die than...
...Vietnamese students at Harvard talked last week about the effect the war and its ending has had on their lives. Suong-Hong Nguyen-Thi is a senior at Radcliffe majoring in economics. She had planned to return to her home in Saigon after graduation to work in her family's pharmaceutical company, but the capitulation of the Saigon government will force her to stay in the U.S. She came to Cambridge in 1972 to study at Harvard, and now lives off-campus with her six-year-old brother. He was sent to her last September when conditions in Saigon were...
Woodside got a chance to see that civilization and others that he had been studying for the first time in 1965, when he began a two-year tour of Asia--the only time he has actually been there. He spent several months in Hong Kong. Tokyo, and Saigon, but the real high point of his trip was a three-week tour of China. Woodside was startled by the diversity of life there--something that periodicals never fully conveyed to the scholar studying Asia from a distance...
...While in Saigon, Woodside observed aspects of the war and began Vietnamese friendships that complicated his uncertainties about American involvement. His initial interest in Vietnam was, of course, scholarly, not political, but he had been troubled since 1963 by parallels between Vietnam and China in the late 1940s. While in Saigon, he witnessed massive student demonstrations against the Saigon government and the United States. Still, his misgivings did not blossom into full opposition to the war. One reason was the ambivalence of his Vietnamese friends--"intellectuals who feared repression if Communists took over, even though they hated the Saigon regime...
...Saigon prepared to surrender, the last lecture of "Vietnam" for 1975 was ending. Woodside facing an even larger crowd than usual, drew smile with his mixing of Eastern and Western images--"A grand Confucian funeral makes a Hollywood funeral seem emotionally modest," he explained a one point. As 1:00 drew near, he skipped some points, and began speaking faster. When the bells of Memorial Church started ringing, he still has more...