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...Korea was not a good war, Vietnam was a distinctly bad one. The 15-year struggle in Indochina was even bloodier, more costly and harder to understand than Korea, and its support ebbed away. As the war wore on, it filled U.S. streets with demonstrators, tore up university campuses, split society and families, dragged down a President and came close to destroying the Army. While the G.I.s of World War II were loved, the grunts of Vietnam, no longer "our boys" in the same way, were reviled and sometimes spit...
With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age in which all thoughts and things were split--and far from controlled. As most men realized, the first atomic bomb was a merely pregnant threat, a merely infinitesimal promise...
Life went on, except that I was split between being the good student that everyone else saw and dealing with the emotional trauma I carried with...
When we arrived at Harvard, my friend, who was in the cab with me, paid the driver, and we all got out. A split second later the driver pulled away with my bags in the trunk! I was stunned. It took me a minute to realize that all my schoolbooks were in there, not to mention expensive clothes...
While the Crimson needs only one win to secure the Ivy Title, a weekend split could be disastrous. Another loss for Harvard would probably hurt its seeding in the NCAA Tournament and could mean the difference between whether or not it faces a top-10 team...