Word: willingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apocalypse Now started me really thinking about these ideas. The sheer overwhelming power of the film's depiction of the horror that we call Vietnam left me emotionally drained. The strongest message reverberating through the movie is the total madness with which the Vietnam War was conducted. In the name...
Vietnam did not destroy our national purpose. But it did severely undermine some of our most basic assumptions by demonstrating the pragmatic consequences of these beliefs. Vietnam has forced us to reconsider out values, to reexamine the role we wish to play in the world community, and to rethink the...
Vietnam should not (and ultimately cannot) destroy the American spirit. It imposed an enormous strain on our way of life and at times, came close to toppling the whole system. But one of America's greatest virutes, inherent in her people and strengthened by her institutions, is adaptability, the ability...
This is why Veterans Day felt so uncomfortable this time around. We all realize how much its meaning has been undermined by our recent military experiences, and we don't know how to deal with the discrepancy. But deal with it we must, for a problem that is not confronted...
Veterans Day will acquire more meaning for us if it does not merely celebrate battles of the past, but becomes a focal point for modifying the present to conform with our hopes for the future.