Philip M.

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The thing that turned me against the Vietnam War was an issue of Life magazine in ’68. It had a cover picture of the hundred men that died in Vietnam that week. I said, Enough. I don’t want to stand here as a veteran of World War Two saying that we somehow took a stand that was admirable. We are bad as the rest if we don’t think independently and make up our own minds. We were willing to go along as long as it seemed an easy victory. When it really got tough, we started re-examining.
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
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