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Cerce first signed up for a two-year hitch in 1968, fought in Viet Nam and then returned home to Batavia, N.Y., and a job as a lathe operator. The work paid well - much better than the Army - but Cerce began yearning for the military life. "The days on the Mekong came back, running patrols and not wondering what in hell you're doing with your life," he recalls. After talking it over with his wife LaVonne, Cerce re-enlisted and knew immediately he had made the right decision...
Nunn: Absolutely not, unless the President comes out for it, unless there is a bipartisan coalition supporting it. I think that the form of draft used would be a lottery. The draft used at the beginning of the Viet Nam War was inequitable, but the lottery system that replaced it in later years was not that...
...executive editor of the Washington Post, conspired to have Post Publisher Philip Graham buy the magazine, name Elliott editor and begin Newsweek's race against TIME. He recounts his proudest moments, notably Newsweek's special issues on Black America, its early revelations about U.S. failures in Viet Nam, its agreement to hire and promote more women...
...life to totalitarian noncoms is not exactly a month in the country. Lincoln's conscription in the Civil War caused homicidal riots all over the Union. But the American historical memory is not that long. The main reason for the aversion now is the wound of Viet Nam. Especially in an election year, politicians get sweating palms when they think of reawakening all the vivid and articulate rages that Viet Nam called forth, all the dissent that finally calmed in 1973 after the children of the middle class were no longer in danger of flying home in body bags...
...reason for Agnew's downfall, of course, was the liberal press--"I remember how enraged I was when I saw on television a gang of scruffy looking characters proudly carrying a Viet Cong flag down Pennsylvania Avenue, while a national network commentator ran along beside them with his microphone deferentially extended for whatever seditious statements they might choose to make." Not only did the press insist on covering both sides of the issue when one of them should have been "justly condemned for being traitors," it also slanted its depictions of the Vice President. One reason for the press' hostility...