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Show feel to be in the only war the United States lost?” every veteran I know says, “We were winningit when I was there.” Larry Gwin (!) with a buddy in Vietnam. Ultimately we did whatwe had to do, andthen we decided it was not a good place forus tobe, and we left. Looking back, I think ifthe boys in Washington haddone their homework, they wouldn't havesentusthereinthefirst place. —Larry Gwii who was born in 1941, returnedfromVietnam in 1966 and lat- er begana career at a large Bostonlaw firm. Hequit in 1982 and went into seclu- sionto write abouthis experiences in the war. In 1996, he was belatedly awarded aSilverStar “for extraordinary heroism.” FEMINISM: A PHENOMENON OF THE KITCHEN TABLE he push for women’s rights in this country really wasa kitchen: table movement, started by womenlike me whoneeded changesin their lives. I found a number of women. out there whofelt the same way I did. and we started working togetherin our homes.Everything we wantedin life— whether it was to choose how many chil- drentohave, to go backto school, to the workforce—we wer get involvec determined to 0 out and create in the world. So athered around kitch tables and pieced togetherlegislation. wrote petitions and planned events while our children ran around the room. Meanwhile, the media were creating a movement that was unrecogniz: me—people who bumed bras. whohat- ed menand all of that. I had no idea who these people were, what they did, what theylookedlike. My feminism came straight out of my own circumstances. It wasn’t aboutanational movement. It was simply something that was hap- pening to me, io my friends, to my community. That was feminisra. —MAnrie WILSON, bornin 1940,joinedthe Ms. Foundation for Women and became in 1984. She has led Take Our 1998 Campbet Soup Company, MINUTE® i a rogitored! aderark of Kit Foose. Used with prison THE CENTURY/continued But thereis a joke among the veterans. When we're asked, “How does it |