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Seven of the protestors handed in their draft cards to William Sloan Coffin, Yale Chaplain, in Old South Chu rch on October 16. The eighth turned in his card at a service on November...
Upon returning to Harvard at the beginning of the spring term last year, Sloan found that "people were shocked at what I had done and I couldn't understand their being upset." Because he "enjoyed a little cheap celebrity," Sloan amused himself by provoking his anti-war classmates...
...used to being alone, and I don't think I changed my views about the war because they were unpopular." But, Sloan remembers, his friends patiently prodded him into rethinking the issues. "Then I read Mary McCarthy and found that her reporting was accurate and analysis valid. I kept asking myself why I hadn't seen through the situation earlier...
...Sloan now feels that the war is wrong, but that many of the anti-war criticisms about U.S. military methods are misplaced. "It's not that our military tactics are deliberately evil," Sloan says, "in fact the U.S. is bending over backwards to prevent civilian casual- ties. The war is wrong not because of its tactics but because it is being waged against innocent people...
...first to return to Harvard from Vietnam, Sloan is still wrestling with his conscience and revising his views. Many more Viet Vets are apt to be returning in the next few years and will have to face the same painful re-entry problems. Each will have a vested interest in reaffirming the rightness of what he has been fighting for. Maybe a few of them, like Sloan, will make their adjustment by re-examining their views and lending their prestige to ending...