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...them noted that in contrast to the outpouring of federal aid programs and massive industry drives to hire veterans after World War II, "Today, we are lucky if we get a two-minute spot after the late movie, containing a rather banal 'Don't forget - hire the vet...
...World War I vet, a past body-guard to two Massachusetts governors, a former boxing champion of the 135 pounders, Sullivan, known mostly as "Fizzy," now works at Harvard as a ticket taker. I met him at the Harvard-Yale hockey game...
Everybody's doomed in this world view, so life is giddy, fast-paced and self-destructive. And always--on the streets, in the womb-like bars--violence is rippling under a tiger's skin of desperate holding-on. A party for a newly-returned Vietnam Vet ends, predictably, with the medalled soldier sitting alone, a wallflower. It takes an instant for him to explode into savage confusion. Men are shot, quiet for a second, and then they go wild. The audience is always poised for this, and it helps drive the film...
...Being a former farmer and horse raiser," Reagan said, "I know what it's like to try to eliminate an injured horse by shooting him. Now you call the veterinarian and the vet gives it a shot and the horse goes to sleep-that's it. I myself have wondered if maybe this isn't part of our problem [with capital punishment], if maybe we should review and see if there aren't even more humane methods now-the simple shot or tranquilizer. I think maybe there should be more study on this to find...
Lemmer's story was a major factor in the arrest of six members of the V.V.A.W. in July 1972 on charges of conspiring and crossing state lines to incite a riot (subsequently, another vet and a civilian ally were also charged). Denying the charges, the defendants insisted that the arrests were purely political, designed to embarrass the leadership of the veterans and prevent their legal anti-Nixon demonstrations at the convention. Now the case of the "Gainesville Eight" has come to court as the latest -and possibly last-of the celebrated conspiracy trials of recent years. Those often traumatic...