Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Silent vigils, speeches, concerts, and special services were held in communities throughout the nation, even in areas taking no official note of the day. Many of the ceremonies carried anti-war overtones...
...reinforced by the response of Americans to the My Lai massacre in TIME'S Harris Poll on page 10. By the large majority of 65%, those who were questioned expressed the opinion that "incidents such as this are bound to happen in a war." Almost as disturbing to note are the 13% who have no opinion on My Lai. Only 22% clearly expressed moral repugnance to the idea that American soldiers may have intentionally gunned down unarmed women and children. How can such a response be explained...
...morality, the antithesis of those verities we of the Establishment hold dear. Are we to be blamed if we grow tired of supporting those people who tell us by their appearance that they are most likely to be unemployed, patients in psychiatric wards, or dope addicts? Easy Riders, please note. Your days may be numbered, as I indeed hope they...
...told his wife? Apparently not. She just saw a copy. "Mrs. John son read this statement and wrote me this note and said: 'Beloved'-and I knew the way she started off that she didn't agree with me." Now there is a man who understands his wife and her memo style. "Beloved, to step out now would be wrong for your country and I can see nothing but a lonely wasteland for your future. Your friends would be frozen in embarrassed silence, and your enemies would be jeering. I am not afraid of time or lies...
...CLIVE GARCIA was photographed with his mother just before he returned to Viet Nam. He wrote a note on the back of it: "Your eyes are swollen. You've cried too much, Mom. Life itself really isn't this bad. We only have a few sad minutes, all we can do is accept and live with reality." He also told his mother that "it would happen and not to be sad." He said that he would be brought home by someone who loved him-"a grunt, Mom, a grunt like...