Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives are infected with war in one or another of its many manifestations. If you read the papers, your life--or the way you perceive it--can't help but be influenced by war. Take yesterday's New York Times, for example. One article said that a veteran of Vietnam, Rhodesia, Iraq and Biafra is recruiting 1,000 mercenaries in Britain to fight for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola. In a special dispatch, the "battle lines between Christians and Moslems" in Beirut were described as "quiescent." There was also a report that evidence exists for Nixon...
...Fussell only begins with the kind of half-shaped ideas we get from these recent dispatches. His book deals with World War I and its accretions in the collective memory of the English-speaking world over the past half century. His "memory" is not, say, our individual memories of Vietnam, but a more permanent kind of remembrance: "the literary means by which [WWI] has been remembered, conventionalized and mythologized...
Rebuilding Vietnam...
McGovern said he hoped the U.S. would become part of an international effort to help rebuild Vietnam, similar to the effort begun in Europe and Japan after World War II. "Let the war ease into history," he said...
...should certainly not punish those whose consciences drove them into exile rather than to Vietnam," McGovern said in a plea for total amnesty...