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Americans are hung up on success. Now, after losing our first war, we say that losers must be wrong-hence our continued tendency to wallow in guilt. The humbling Viet Nam experience might be the lesson that teaches it is possible to lose, as we did, and at the same time be the good guys, as we were...
George Orwell said of the English that they remember only their military disasters and defeats; the same is true of Americans. Think of Valley Forge, the burning of Washington, the Alamo, Custer's Last Stand and Pearl Harbor. America is not going to "forget" Viet...
...found sanctuary in a new land. There were not many relatives to greet the 196 Vietnamese "boat people" as their chartered jet from Malaysia landed in Des Moines, but their expressions of joy and hope were much like those of the Soviet Jews. Tran Qui Son, 26, had fled Viet Nam by boat with his wife and two young sons after the Communist regime had forced him to close his appliance repair shop. They floated to Malaysia, where they huddled with 60,000 other refugees awaiting a new home. Said he: "In my country I could no longer care...
...Tuesday Duoc, a former fisherman in Viet Nam, was on Sherm and Maryellen Oberhauser's farm, driving a tractor across the cornfields. Mrs. Oberhauser said their first lunch there went well: "They didn't touch the potatoes, and they looked at the green beans a long time before eating them, but they each had two hamburgers." Donna Knoll, 56, came by with a Vietnamese phrase book to help her new neighbors learn English. Carol Bailey took some of the family out shopping for shoes, and Larry Bailey planned a trip to Fort Dodge to get everybody Social Security...
...face, the situation may help explain the mood of public disenchantment that has persisted long after the events-Viet Nam and Watergate-that were supposed to have caused it. Surely neither of those national traumas caused the drop of popular confidence in almost all key U.S. institutions that Pollster Louis Harris recently recorded. It also seems doubtful that either deprived the Administration's energy crusade of both popular support and belief. Could it be that many citizens simply feel foreclosed not only from knowledge but also from the power that knowledge would give them...