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History tells us that we will not remember. The country is currently run by a generation of men who avoided the draft, the same men who, like my classmates, once dedicated themselves to never allowing another Vietnam. Perhaps if they had actually served when their country called, had been shot at with live ammo, had been forced into the full horror of a front row seat in a theater of combat, perhaps then they might have thought twice before marching our children into perdition again...
...military veterans of service in a combat zone. It is encouraging to know that at least some Harvard students are thinking about their privileged positions in life in a time of a war. When I arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1971, just after serving a year in Vietnam, my personal experience was that not only was there a lack of appreciation for my service, I was instead treated with a bit of scorn for having served. I sincerely hope those who do not have the privilege of serving their country in the military will see fit to honor...
Back at Gilly's the soldiers are outraged that so far only low-level troops have been collared for the prison abuses. The banter turns to what kind of behavior is acceptable in war. One Vietnam vet at the bar recalls atrocities: "I knew guys in Vietnam with dried ears and penises hanging from their dog tags," he says. "What these guys did in Iraq was bad, and they ought to burn for it, but it's not the worst thing we've done...
...critics. Four decades after its peak years, the last and most rebarbative movement of High Modernism turns out to be durable stuff. Deeply embedded in the DNA of much of the art that came after, it has likewise become the vocabulary of choice for almost all monuments since the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the semiofficial format of grief...
...relationship between intentions and accomplishments, between ends and means. You do not find that balance in the Bush Administration's planning. The result is not a bad strategy but no strategy at all. War is the continuation of politics by other means. Didn't the U.S. learn anything from Vietnam? CLAUDIO LEMA POSE Curacao, Netherlands Antilles...