One student remembered seeing a photo of “an American GI posing with a dead Vietcong, hanging by his feet, like he’d just shot a deer. And there were other scenes of them standing with their feet on piles of bodies of Vietnamese, posing proudly like they’d been out hunting.” His brother serving in Vietnam had written him, “I cry every day. And I tell my men to cry. Because that’s the only way we’ll get through this thing without going crazy.” He died only nineteen days after arriving in “Nam.” Because of such things, many students felt little patriotism for their country. Few favored violence,
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