Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class of '64 was also one of the last to graduate into a society relatively untouched by the Vietnam War. Gunnoe refers to his years as "the halcyon days, prior to the war building up...People felt they could do most anything they wanted to after graduation." There were wider possibilities for draft deferment then, before the crunch came in 1966. "Options tightened with the war, but we were full of possibilities." Gunnoe remembers...
Hoffman said the 1969 staff worked under another pressing constraint: "We rushed it to press because we were afraid the Vietnam War would be over before it came...
...more Blacks than whites died in the Southern civil rights movement during the '60s, for example, yet it was the deaths of white protest marchers, the Goodmans and Schwerners, that opened the eyes of middle class America to the atrocities going on down South The same holds true in Vietnam One wonders whether we as a nation would ever have known, or even bothered to find out, what our government was up to in Southeast Asia if our own sons had not been used as cannon fodder Perhaps the same will hold true for the present day crises in which...
Special-interest partisans. These are flakes who grew up. They're proud that they read the papers and know every battle of the Vietnam War but are mature enough to admit their lust for the trend-setter bunnies. Not that they get anywhere with the fast crowd. No, they must still alone for their occasional outbursts of sarcasm or their lingering interest in science fiction. Predominantly male (but including a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf), the special-interest partisans are the hope and promise of their generation...
...They see a man who acts without real information. They see a man with an anecdotal view of the world, who may apply in EI Salvador lessons of imagined history in Vietnam. They see a man who gives simplistic answers to complicated questions. They care about their country, and they find it too upsetting to acknowledge-to the public or to themselves-that the enormous power of its leadership is in such hands...