Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, in addition to many other fine personal qualities, stays up much later than I do. Good morning, Marc! We can argue anecdotally forever...my parents vowed to see me leave for Sweden before they would allow me to fight in Viet Nam. Nonetheless, I believe that my analysis of trends in American public opinion is correct, that the widely perceived antipathy to the War in Viet Nam arose not from student demonstrations but from the far deeper feelings of our mothers. Buzz -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:24 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Did a Single Photograph or Two Stop the War In Viet Nam? At 07:44 PM 5/10/04 -0400, Buzz Hausner wrote: >I gasp in disbelief that Marc Small should only be partly correct in his >analysis. What really brought American opinion to view the War in Viet >Nam with revulsion was not the action of the students...indeed, I was an >active protester...it was our mothers who finally stood up and said (in >essence), "Hell, No! Not with my boy you don't" It wasn't photographs >of terrified, naked children, nor of Vietnamese executioners that caused >our mothers' to wonder for what their sons died, it was the broadcast >news film and tape of Americans fighting in the jungles, Americans >screaming in pain, and Americans coming home dead. ========================== Buzz I am sorry to add to your repiratory ailments, but read the Gallup and Harris polls in 1974 and 1975: there was a positive and decided majoirty in favor of "winning" the Viet-Nam War, whatever that meant;. My own mother and father wished that I would go to Viet-Nam, and my father went to his grave regretting that I was "denied" the opportunity. I chose my own pace: by the time I was commissioned, they were pulling all the troops back, so I missed this epic opportunity to particpate in a war in which I did not believe. Marc