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...inclusion of peace groups was probably the most debated decision, since they added what some civil rights traditionalists view as an unrelated and controversial element to the cause. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young defends the broadened coalition, pointing out that King, shortly before his death, turned against the Viet Nam War as an impediment to black progress. Says Young: "Without peace, there are no jobs or freedom...
...march, they go to the nation's capital. This is not new for us." Indeed, although the first March on Washington attracted the biggest crowd ever assembled in the city up to that time, it has since been surpassed by several events, including the 1969 Moratorium on the Viet Nam War (300,000) and the AFL-CIO's 1981 Solidarity Day rally (260,000). But it was not the size of the crowd the first time that mattered so much as the force of King's vision. It seared the American consciousness with an impact that almost...
...World War II, American soldiers darted across Europe in Jeeps and swarmed ashore on to Pacific islands from LSTs. By the 1960s, G.I.s were commuting to and from action in Viet Nam by helicopter. The chopper, in fact, is symbolic of that war, and memories of 'Nam still echo with the beat of rotor blades...
This memoir by former Army Pilot Robert Mason recalls the violent, deafening, treetop world of 1,000 Viet Nam helicopter missions. Chickenhawk begins with a Florida farm boy's daydream of levitating above the fields and ends with the veteran suspended in horror and disillusionment...
Helicopter tactics were still in the experimental stage when Warrant Officer Mason arrived at An Khe in 1965. Nobody knew much of anything except that Viet Nam was, as Mason writes, "a good place to buy stereo equipment." For months the Army suffered high chopper losses because pilots flew at low levels over Viet Cong-held villages and paddy-fields without varying their approaches and takeoffs. Men died because promised chest-armor plates for their cockpits failed to arrive. To exist, Mason learned to adapt to "the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre...