Word: wars
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...pretty courageous to speak out in favor of the Vietnam War on campus because the prevailing mood on the faculty and among the students was very anti-war," Coffin says...
Less than three months after graduating, Gore enlisted in the Army, much to the delight of his father, a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. The decision surprised his friends, who said that Gore had always opposed the war...
...Harvard in 1965, Gore couldn't be completely insular. It was difficult for any student to escape the daily barrage of national and international affairs. The war in Vietnam had just begun to receive intense, critical coverage in the national media...
When Gore did talk about his father, says Kapetan, it was usually in reference to the Senator's strong record on civil rights or his anti-war stance...
...None of us were sympathetic, though all of us were troubled and opposed to the war," he says...