Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a problem with Robert McNamara making millions of dollars on his book while, at the same time, countless numbers of men and women have died and suffered lifelong trauma because of his incompetent leadership while serving as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. As a 45-year-old non-veteran it irritates me that McNamara will become even richer by promoting his book while others still suffer with every tick of the clock...
There was no applause for the former secretary,however, when two speakers in the question andanswer period--one a Vietnam veteran, one thewidow of a slain pilot--asked him why he allowedthe war to continue...
...What we were trying to do was use militarypressure to move the North Vietnamese tonegotiations," he continued. Some in theadministration, he said, felt losing Vietnam wouldmean a catastrophe for the western world, perhapsWorld War III. McNamara said he now believes theywere wrong...
...second emotional moment came when a Vietnamwidow described a meeting in 1968 which McNamaraand other high-ranking official attended. They metfor less than an hour about a pilot shot down overa Vietnam island, she said, and McNamara laterwrote in a secret document that there should be norescue...
...least the United States, includingSecretary McNamara, have faced up to the morallegacy, the lessons of Vietnam, in a way that theleaders of Vietnam have not," Tai said. "For thatat least I am glad that, having been born inVietnam, I have become an American Citizen...