Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irons said yesterday he applied for the pardon in September 1974, when Ford announced a clemency program for Vietnam draft resisters who performed alternate service...
...because he had sent his draft card in before August 1964--the date of the Tonkin Bay resolution considered the official beginning of the Vietnam War--Irons was not included in the clemency program, and for the next two years his case was tied up in Justice Department bureaucracy...
Doctors never like to admit that doctors may be wrong. But in the case of the swine flu program reluctance, especially on the part of government officials, to admit to mistakes has approached a level reminiscent of the methods of the Vietnam War policy makers. As in the Vietnam days, there has been an unwillingness to listen to outside opinions; a pattern of decisionmaking by a small group; an intolerance of dissenting views, both within and outside the government; and an inability to reevaluate policy as circumstances changed. Although the swine flu fiasco at times seemed laughable, amateurish, the reasons...
...read this as either a relief or a tragedy, the supply of eager fighters seems to outstrip the demand. The back pages of the winter '77 issue are filled with classified ads like "Vietnam vet, experienced, seeks high-risk, high-pay work anywhere in the world." The seekers are the sad legacy of Vietnam. They know how to fight, but not what to fight for--unless the draft or a soldier's salary is a good basis for killing people. The ads do not read, "Good soldier seeks just and true cause to support...
...seems to be their editorial stance that too much literacy is a sign of weakness. One caption says that the U.S. had won the Vietnam war but "lost it during the Paris Peace Conference and with the help of gutless Congress." Most of the articles carry the reader along with violence or sensationalism. Features on weapons are geared to lure gun fanatics the way Motor Trend courts auto freaks. They go into exquisite detail. One review of a new pistol notes that "the front strap is serrated, a big help when the gun hand is wet sweaty or bloody." What...