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Freedom’s just another word
for nothing left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson
Da Nang Saturday Night
by David Horowitz
The news came over the radio as my Datsun
ambled up the Oregon side to the great Pacific. Da
Nang, once the key American logistics base in
Vietnam, had just fallen to the Communist offensive.
I was on my way to a cluster of cottages up
the coast where Mac, a former Marine sergeant in
Nam, was caretaking some property for the winter.
Mac is writing a book about his experiences in the
war and what came down when he returned home.
He says thousands of grunts like himself could write
the same thing. There’s nothing special about his
own experience, except that he happened to be one of
the early founders of Vietnam Veterans Against the
War.
When I reached the place where Mac and
some friends were partying, I brought with me a
bottle of Jim Beam and the news that Da Nang had
fallen. Two other Vietnam jugheads were there.
They weren’t surprised to hear the news, but it
brought back old times.
It didn’t take you long to realize the war was
lost, they said of their time in Nam, back in ‘65 and
‘66. The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese called
all the shots. Americans in the field never initiated
any engagements. Time after time search and destroy
missions were drawn into VC traps, only to be
ambushed and sometimes all but wiped out.
Mac talked of survivor guilt. You wouldn’t
believe how quickly you can dig a hole when you’re
in the line of mortar, he said. You can do it like a
dog, with your bare hands, if you have to. Y ou camp
for the night worrying that you’re not in deep enough,
and every hour start digging to get down further. One
time, Mac said, he and some of his platoon suddenly
made for a trench as some VC opened fire. The spot
where Mac happened to dive had a small space into
which he could jam his elbow. Everybody but
himself got blown away.
Sometimes a night long ambush would turn
out to be three Vietnamese snipers with rifles. The
military would proudly report the “capture” of a
stronghold.
Up on the DMZ, during Operation Hastings
(named for the 900th anniversary of an earlier battle
for Western Civilization), you could hear Charlie
outside the base if you didn’t mistake him for
chattering monkeys in the jungle. Sometimes the VC
would even watch the movies shown to the grunts in
base camp. Mac swears the camp got shelled like
crazy after every John Wayne flick.
Then there was the day that the silent, huge­
sized gunnery sergeant stopped the war. The
company was moving in a single column through the
jungle in futile search-and-destroy. They ’d had no
rest that day. The mud was often waist-high. Up
ahead, three men had to clear the path by bending
back the jungle growth - you couldn’t cut it with
anything. The gunnery sergeant, who had oyer a
dozen purple hearts, just sat down on the trail and
refused to move. All he said was that he wasn’t going
anywhere until he rested. The word passed down the
column — “Davis just stopped the war.” The word
came back up the column — “Right on, Davis.” The
officers were sent back to negotiate. Davis wouldn t
move. After three or four hours, when he was ready,
Davis got up and the column proceeded.
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Editorial
by the Reverend
Billy Lloyd Hults
We ponder freedom in this month of
our nation’s two hundred and twenty-fourth
birthday. And like many Americans we are
somewhat dismayed. Our nation has become
the dominant economic, military and cultural
force of the world. We have spread capitalism
and democracy successfully even to Corn-
dictatorships like Cuba and China,
where it is tolerated and occasionally
encouraged. There are few on the planet who
don’t know about Mickey Mouse, Coca Cola,
and Nike. But has our success given us our
dream? Are we a free country? We.say we
have the freedom of choice, but do we? The
globalization of commerce has actually limited
our choices as consumers. The corporatization
of politics has repeatedly given us the lesser of
two evils in our choice of leaders. Regretfully
this is the case in our current political cycle.
Mr. Bore and Mr. Gush. Oh, we have some
other ‘choices’, sort of; Tom Tomorrow is
running his “Flightless Water Fowl”
candidate, a penguin in sunglasses; and on the
Doonesbury Ticket we have Uncle Duke,
whose motto is “Absolutely nothing to lose.”
I mean really, what do we have to lose? Then
there is Wavy Gravy’s ever popular “Nobody
for President”.
And then we have Ralph Nader, the
candidate of the Green Party. It seems like,
everybody knows who Ralph Nader is -- he’s
been making news since the sixties when he
wrote a book about the Corvair titled, “Unsafe
at any Speed,” which attacked auto industry
safety standards, and probably saved a few
lives. It also seems that very few think he
could or should be elected president. We are
told he is not an option and that with only 4%
to 10% of the people polled voting for him, he
is not worthy of being included in the presi­
dential debates on national television and
sponsored by multi-national corporations.
W e are not sure if others have noticed but the Cubs have
actually moved up to and are defending fourth place in the
National League East. Yes, it is a six team division, unlike the
American League W est, where the Cubs would be in their more
familiar place, last. But nonetheless, Mr. Sosa is still our right
fielder, and the pitching seems to have improved from the early
double digit debacles. W e have found that we can listen to the
games on our iMac, much to our amazement, and delight. There
is still a lot o f baseball to be played before the All Star Break.
Go Cubbies!!
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