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2004-04-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2004-04-09 11:39:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "it coincided with the golden glory years of so many old boomers who now clog the arteries of the media and academe"

-absolutely perfect quote. Good article, thanx Steve.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-09 12:19:15 PM|| 2004-04-09 12:19:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 hey! I just used a similar quote myself!! Maybe that's because those of us who didn't establish our entire identity on opposing the Vietnam war think of the Vietnam war in terms of those piles of skulls in the killing fields, rather than flowers in our hair at a local love in.

These people remind me of, I don't know...residents of someplace like Vicksburg circa 1900. If we all sat around a room, and were able to replay a video of the ol' life on a plantation those circa 1900 people might still see the beauty of the architecture, dresses, wine and food and wish it could be that way again. But you know - I suspect that most born after that time would instead notice the slaves, the humans who didn't look quite human - the broken men and women, living like beasts, whose faces would cause us pain just to look upon.

And so it is with Vietnam. They see only the mint julip, and hear the beauty of the negro spiritual's as they sing in the fields. The rest of us see the suffering that made it all possible and feel ashamed....and steel ourselves to assure that it will never be allowed to happen again.

Posted by anon 2004-04-09 4:33:21 PM|| 2004-04-09 4:33:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Anon - beautifully written and definitely on point!

Posted by Nancy 2004-04-09 9:29:16 PM|| 2004-04-09 9:29:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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