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...brighten itself with parades and fireworks and concerts in the park, and cute local events like the porcupine race in Council, Idaho. Patriotism and nostalgia will gust among the picnickers. But on the whole, American morale may not be up to a convincingly exuberant Fourth. In the years since Viet Nam, the U.S. has accumulated a few sorrows that, if not worthy of Job, are at least chastening...
Sure enough, L.B.J. jetted off secretly to Viet Nam and a conference with his field commanders. While in flight he changed his gray suit to a rancher's outfit of twill so that he would look more like a soldier when he reviewed the troops at Cam Ranh Bay. When the Commander in Chief left the plane he was a harmony in brown...
When the Communists stormed the U.S. embassy in Saigon in 1975, they captured files and computers laden with secret material, including the names of informants in North Viet Nam. In 1979 the mobs of students who seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran found secret material presumably showing the ultimate links between Washington and the Shah-there had not been time to destroy...
...America as too rich, too powerful, too heedless of fate. Today Europe's complaint is that America is not rich enough, not powerful enough-and still too heedless of fate. These perceptions of America's early virtue and later vices, of its pre-Viet Nam power and its present weakness, share one quality: they are feverishly overblown...
Slowly she disabuses herself of this notion. The final link in her chain of reasoning is her youngest brother. Facing the draft, he enlists in the Navy, prepared to desert the moment he is required to inflict pain or death. He goes to Viet Nam and sees the Orient for the first time, reversing the trip made by so many of his forebears. And he comes home, not to China but to California, where, as an uncle had once shouted, "we belong." At the very end, Kingston resolves to "watch the young men who listen...