Word: serviceman
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...major cities. Sweden is a tightly structured society, and some Americans have found it as difficult to conform to the Scandinavian brand of red tape as to military life. Then, too, they are often disappointed to find they can only scrape up menial jobs. As one ex-serviceman growled in a television interview: "I didn't come to Sweden to wash dishes...
Thaddeus Garrett Jr., a member of Mrs. Chisholm's staff, toured overseas bases for six weeks last summer. He quoted one black serviceman as saying that blacks there "are already talking in terms of revolution, and that some type of violence is inevitable. They just do not care anymore." Blacks make up 12% of the G.I.s in Germany, and racial tensions there run high. Wallace Terry III, a former TIME correspondent in Viet Nam and author of a forthcoming book, The Bloods: The Black Soldier from Viet Nam to America, has made the oft-repeated-and oft-denied-charge...
Still, difficult though it may be, the serviceman does have a moral choice, as well as a legal duty, to question unlawful orders. Surely officers in particular are expected to understand and enforce the laws of war. Calley claimed that Captain Medina gave orders to kill all My Lai villagers, presumably including women and children. Medina flatly denied this. Whatever the facts, Calley's claim gets short shrift from Columbia Law Professor Telford Taylor, who served at Nuremberg as chief counsel to the prosecution, with the rank of brigadier general. Writing in this week's LIFE, Taylor comments: "Such...
Nowhere is the problem more critical than in the nation's cities. Of the 5,000,000 currently out of work, at least one in ten is a returned serviceman, most of them from large urban areas. In New York City, where 48,000 Viet vets returned home last year, the City Division of Veterans Affairs has been stymied in its search to find jobs. In 1969, for example, the agency was able to place citywide only 3,116 vets of the 9,473 who applied. "And 1969 was a labor year," says one counselor...
...root causes of the veterans' plight are multiple, beginning with public apathy toward the Viet Nam vet. Much of the war's unpopularity has been unjustly transferred to the men who are fighting it. Never has the U.S. serviceman met with such indifference, even hostility. He is back, but who cares? Says Pew: "When a young man comes home from so-called fighting for his country and then looks to his country for help, and nobody gives, you know, nobody cares, it's just weird...