Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, it is only at a school like Harvard--not at state universities and junior colleges--that one has a hard time finding Vietnam veterans. In the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, less than a handful are now enrolled...
...this makes a certain amount of sense--the sparse numbers of Harvard students who fought in Vietnam amply explain why. Harvard, which may have provided the brain power behind America's Indochina adventure, certainly provided little of the manpower...
...isolation of Harvard's Vietnam vets is real. Marton, who lives in a single at Currier House, admits that "because I got all the piss and vinegar out of me. I'm more sedate than most around here, and have only a narrow circle of friends." Another undergraduate, John Derho '75, also 26 and also a veteran of combat in Vietnam, moved out of Adams House last year and went incommunicadeo. "We have no way of reaching him except by mailing messages to Post Office Box 8995 in Boston," the Adams House secretary says. "I see him from time...
...isolation also gives way to a certain reticence, though to varying degrees. Robert Sullivan, a history tutor in Kirkland House, shies away from discussing his term of Army duty in South Vietnam. "I'm sorry to be disobliging, but although I'm something of a fount of Saigon tales, I don't think my experiences with the ancien regime are worthy of splashing across the newspaper page at the breakfast table." Sullivan says. "I was stationed in Saigon, but never carried a rifle...
...looking for adventure." After four months of infantry duty--"mostly assaults on Viet Cong way stations along the Ho Chi Minh trail," he says--in Bin Ding province in the Central Highlands, Marton had a "bellyful of adventure" and began to develop an interest in the politics of the Vietnam...