CURRENT WISDOM: The Great Books Series
URRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series In a gallimaufry of puerile prose from his 1971 Band of Brothers, the Democratic Party's 2004 Vietnam Vet of the Year publishes sniveling sentiments and...
...2/39 9th Infantry Div...
...It's like a very clever form of racism...
...That's how bad it was...
...When I watched TV or something and watched the Indians and the cavalry, I would cheer for the cavalry...
...Five hundred push-ups...
...Feb...
...It's not supposed to...
...All the massacres were the same...
...May '69 - July'69 [Congressional Record 4/6/71] I'D SAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT, and a lot of the people who sort of run this nation, have been telling a lot of GIs that the biggest detriment to our morale has been the longhaired, protesting, pinko sympathizer type, but think the biggest lift for my morale came when I was lying in Okinawa in the hospital there and a girl wrote me about a place called Woodstock, where 500,000 people had come together and it was so beautiful...
...A tidal wave...
...And I just sort of absolutely panicked: "My God...
...The worst thing that you can be in the military is to be called a civilian...
...back then they put smallpox in the blankets and gave them to the Indians...
...69 - Sept...
...They're supposed to be gung-ho...
...And this is where I got, you know, this is where I started to hate, hate anything that wasn't exactly like me...
...Gooks...
...Sp/4 "C" Co...
...The way things are going now, one of these days the grass isn't going to grow...
...The DI would explain, "See, your college education don't mean a thing...
...It was the first time I smiled in a long time...
...I still want to serve my country...
...my God, you know this can't be real...
...You could just go right on down the line and name all the similarities...
...American Div...
...68 [Congressional Record 4/6/71] THE WHOLE AMERICAN POLICY is nothing but what you might call cultural imperialism...
...I will not go unless we can make real our promises of self-determination and justice at home...
...I am still willing to pick up arms and defend it—die for it, if necessary...
...Christopher Soares L/Cpl (E -3) "G" Co...
...I'm from Fairfield County, Connecticut...
...Way back, they had something good...
...Bill Perry PFC (E -3) 101st Airborne Div...
...68 [Congressional Record 4/7/71] I, I DIDN'T CARE about anyone else...
...And he'd throw me a pistol...
...I'd never seen a pistol before and I'd make a mistake...
...USWMC (2537332) Force Logistic Command (FLC) 1st FSR/FMF PAC Sept...
...Trying to make you whiter than white...
...Nov...
...Come out here in front of your buddies...
...67 - Nov...
...I didn't agree with everything, but I went along with it...
...I mean I was a worthless human being...
...Collier Books, New York, 1971) OCTOBER 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 65...
...You know, it's happening to the poor, smug George D. Roberts, you know, 2537332 type thing, not really happening to me...
...Now, however, I will not go blindly because my government says that I must go...
...3rd Marine Div...
...okay, I went in there and my complete moral worth was completely destroyed...
...No Yeah...
...Now since you know it all, show us how to disassemble this...
...This was around Quang Tri Area and I personally offered $25 for his head...
...No...
...But because of all that I saw in Vietnam, the treatment of civilians, the ravaging of their countryside, the needless, useless deaths, the deception and duplicity of our policy, I changed...
...E -5) 1/6 & 1/46,198 L.I.B...
...They've always been in to trying to honkify white people as much as possible...
...Jean-Francois Kerry's imperishable "Epilogue": IMYSELF WENT INTO THE SERVICE with very little awareness of the people in the streets...
...Traditional assumptions and expectations simply were not enough...
...from The New Soldier by John Kerry and Vietnam Veterans Against the War...
...And I...
...The drill instructor would go on: "All right, Professor...
...I mean me, a Georgetown Foreign Service School man, a former congress-man's aide...
...URRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series In a gallimaufry of puerile prose from his 1971 Band of Brothers, the Democratic Party's 2004 Vietnam Vet of the Year publishes sniveling sentiments and hairy-chested boasts that he apparently hoped time would erase: Skip Roberts Cpl...
...9th Marine Reg...
...and the rivers aren't going to flow...
...They don't talk about it often...
...64 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2004 CURRE T ISDOM Anything that wasn't a fighting machine...
...Right now a lot of Indian people are thinking bout the old ways...
...first man to grab the best C-rations and leave us with the ham and lima beans, which we used to call ham and shit and so for this reason and for driving us to the point of not knowing where your mind is—not knowing where the hell to go or what to do—we just hated that guy and we wanted to see him go...
...69 [Congressional Record 4/6/71] THIS SERGEANT used to be the biggest pig in the world and he just used to take everything—first man to be on the chow line...
...Nowadays they use chemical warfare...
...Was it me...
...69 - Apr...
...70 AND THIS SPEC/4 at the Army induction center turns to me and says, "Roberts, you're going into the Marines...
...It's a very effective means of control...
...Just taking their whole decadent culture, their whole cold-weather culture, their whole fear culture, and push their fear, push this hate, push this mistrust, among all of us...
...When I was small I was exposed to it...
...I accepted then and still accept the idea of service to one's country...
...I learned at Parris Island that terror works...
...And so they had to completely resocialize us, which they were very effective at doing...
...It's not supposed to...
...And then people started getting into a money bag, and that's when it all happened...
...And we had a pool going within the platoon...
...66 - Aug...
...2nd Bn...
...You know, I cared about myself and I, I got drafted into the army and it made quite a big change because I was waving flags all the time that I was on my train, you know, down to South Carolina where I got my murder training...
...And now, a few morsels from Lt...
...If you took the Vietnamese War as it is, and compared it to the Indian Wars a hundred years ago, it would be the same thing...
...Evan Haney E -4 NSA Danang June '68 - July'69 [Congressional Record 4/6/71] I'M A SEMINOLE INDIAN...
...Edited by David Thorne and George Butler...
...I will not go unless the threat is a real one and we all know it to be so...
...As far as the bounty is concerned, the first man with a witness in a fire fight, who blew his ass away with a round across his eyeballs would get a $1000...
...The Marine Corps drafts people...
...In a way it's a good sign...
...It's this kind of thing some of us have felt all of our lives...
...I will not go unless the people of this country decide for themselves that we must all of us go...
...One thing I would like to bring up about racism is that I have grown up with it all my life...
...Was it really happening to me...
...They can't meet their quotas any more...
...When we made treaties long ago, it was for as long as the grass shall grow and as long as the rivers shall flow...
...Then I was sent on to advanced genocide training down at Fort Polk, Louisiana...
...Jim Weber Sgt...
Vol. 37 • October 2004 • No. 8
