Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...evident as they were three years ago when I first went to Vietnam. A few whites today refer to "my soul brothers" and make the black power sign. But most black soldiers don't expect such friendships to change the racist world to which he will return...
Many black soldiers may become so busy socially and economically that their militancy will fade somewhat when they return. "They have a lot of time on their hands over here to get worked up," said Smith. "A lot of what they think they will do, they just won't. They won't be so closely knit. And they will have girls, wives, families and jobs to worry over...
...enveloped the GI on the battle ground in much the same manner as I have seen it involve the student on the college campus, and many black soldiers say they will join the ranks of radical groups like the Black Panthers or Students for a Democratic Society when they return home...
...Frank Petersen of Washington, D.C., a black Marine pilot who led a squadron of Phantoms at Chu Lai, agreed. "You have some very angry blacks who are here who are going to go back and are going to be more angry once they return. There is a hell of a chance that many of the blacks who are being discharged, if they encounter the right set of conditions, will become urban guerrillas...
...Gunner Casselman, the novel's two central figures, grew up in Indianapolis, went to college in Indiana, and knew nothing outside of the Midwest until a strange war called the "Korean Conflict" forced them to leave home for two years. Going All the Way is the story of their return home after Korea, their friendship, and their attempts to "start a whole new part of life-the 'real part...