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ONLY the Indochina War-described recently by a veteran as "the biggest nothing in history"-could have produced a book like James Park Sloan's War Games, a callous yet strangely sensitive autobiographical narrative of a young "tough-minded" soldier's attempts to cope with the brutally absurd...
...person, Sloan speaks quietly and intelligently of his war experiences, vainly attempting to sort them into some logical philosophical system. He realizes, however, that this war bows to no systemization. An opportunist, Sloan decided to profit as much as possible from Vietnam and soaked the corruption, bureaucratic idiocy, and brutality for whatever he could gain...
...exploit in which he turned over his sergeant's house trailer (with the man's wife inside) and destroyed all of the NCO Club furniture. "I was mean as only an intellectual can be mean in confronting the threateningly democratic, over-bureaucratized army." A demonic grin flashes quietly across Sloan's face. "Yes, I'm a revolutionary. But I stopped my revolution because nobody joined...
...Sloan is an infidel, refusing to accept a God who denied him a horse when he was a prayerful South Carolina child of six. In 1961, he came to Harvard as a freshman and remained three years with mediocre grades. He spent his hours drinking cases of beer in front of the Adams House TV and pissing in the sink of a nearby art room when his bladder beckoned. One night, he fondly recalls, the janitor locked the art room and Sloan was forced to deposit his urine in the House's ashtrays...
...Medical School, an informal group of students and faculty members held a teach-in last night to discuss physician resistance to the war. Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin Jr. spoke, as did Vietnam veterans...