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...this measure alone, Bloods is superb. The 20 blacks who discuss their experiences while serving in the Viet Nam War are uniformly eloquent. Editor Wallace Terry covered the fighting during the late 1960s as a TIME correspondent in Saigon and came away convinced that black combatants carried some unique burdens. They were, particularly during the earlier phases of U.S. involvement, doing a disproportionate amount of the dying. They were bearing arms against nonwhites in a cause that was increasingly dividing blacks as well as the entire U.S. And they came home not to acclaim (few Viet Nam vets received that...
...peafowl, a civet cat and other zoo dwellers. To make so beastly a world bearable, an author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example, a G.I. in Saigon undresses a shy local whore only to find that her back has been grotesquely scarred by napalm; in another, a sexual innocent is initiated by a beefy drab with blue-veined thighs and blood on her fingers from the abattoir, where she sorts out tubs of "shivering, gelid, brown and purple...
...kind of moral freshness in the American imagination, a quality of collective heroic virtue for which the nation may be wistful. Liberation meant something very wonderful and literal then. It had not acquired the cynical, even Orwellian overtone one hears in, say, "the liberation of Saigon." And there were things that seemed worth dying for without question. Today the questions always seem to overshadow the commitment. The morals of sacrifice, so clear then, are more confusing...
...home, but living by hard deals everywhere else. The crisis in Democracy comes when Inez's father Paul, a voluble lunatic, shoots Janet to death, and Inez, mystified but somehow released, leaves her old life to go with Lovett to Hong Kong just before the fall of Saigon...
...Ninety-eight percent of the CIA operations in Vietnam were total fabrications," he said. Stockwell served as a case officer in Saigon during the Vietnam...