
In the Midst of It All: Looking Back On Vietnam 1966-1971
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Series: In the Midst of It All
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ISBN10: 1500149098
ISBN13: 9781500149093
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2014
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781500149093
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2014
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We discovered in that depressing, hellish place where death was our constant companion that we loved each other. We killed for each other, we died for each other and we wept for each other. And in time we came to love each other as brothers. In battle our world shrank to the man on our left and the man on our right and the enemy all around. We held each other's lives in our hands and we learned to share our fears, our hopes, our dreams as readily as we shared what little else good came our way. We were the children of the 1950's and John F. Kennedy's young stalwarts of the early 1960's. He told the world that Americans would go anywhere, pay any price, bear any burden in the defense of freedom. We were the down payment on that costly contract, but the man who signed it was not there when we fulfilled his prom-ise. John F. Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, and in time, by the thousands, we came to fill those slopes with our white marble mark-ers and to ask on the murmur of the wind if that was truly the future he had envisioned for us.
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