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...Viet Nam, went home to West Virginia 17 months ago with a Purple Heart and a dream: he wanted to become a state trooper. But Johnson had two problems. One was his right ankle, shattered by a Viet Cong machine-gun slug in April 1966, when he was a sergeant with the 4th Marine Division. With regular exercise, he was able to get into good enough shape to pass the physical. His other problem was less easily solved. Johnson is a Negro, and there were no Negroes- Vietvets or otherwise-among West Virginia's 322 troopers...
Peter D. L. Stansky, assistant professor of History and the course instructor, evidently takes intellectual change seriously. The last item on the reading list, which includes Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and E.M. Forster, is "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And it is required...
Brodie says, with all the casual arrogance of an army sergeant addressing fresh recruits. It is hothouse precocity and not learning or wisdom that she instills. Instead of history, she maunders on about her World War I lover who died in Flanders Field the day before the Armistice. Instead of art, she lapses into erotic reveries about the sensual gratifications of Italian holidays...
...Weak Links. There is overwhelming evidence that the V.C. barrage is backfiring badly. Black American soldiers are not flattered by such wooing. "It's a bunch of jibe," says Negro Platoon Sergeant John F. Foulks. "I read it-and forgot it." Other Negro soldiers get angry. "Where was all this brotherhood crap when my friends got killed?" asks SP4 Gerald Walker...
...song is more than personal reminiscence; the richly ornamented irony of Guthrie's prose and his superb sense of timing turn Alice into a winsome memorable addition to the antiwar repertory that young singers across the land are compiling. "You want to know," he asks a sergeant at the induction center, "if I'm moral enough to join the Army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug...