Show J VI VIET T NAM AND OUR BOYS Do 10 1 people olle h here re really know what our hays boys bo a in the Armed d Forces ore K have ha JQ Q go through and the tiro kind of lives byes th they r live e in in that far off land miles Its It's called Viet let Naia Nam its it's it a a 1 laud land of nee ril-e paddies and jungle a 8 land laud of strange con eon t eerie beauty and sudden udden death cleath It N a I land laud of the most mast modern I machines Il of war and the old age tiredness of young men who must fight who ruu must t till still take the high ground seek out the enemy destroy troi his shelter hetter take him hint and and then we care for 11 Jus wom women lI and children Please don't dont look for a single explanation of Viet let Sam Nain All Alt we know is that the Big Brass Blass seems to be almo almost t a as confused confused con fused as the rest of us Many people cant can't yet Ct point the country of Viet Viii Xam out on oil OUa a map cant can't gue guess 1 the number I of f weekly casualties there cant can't figu figure e out who t taw tho tw my is and c cant can't n t under understand taud what it its it's nil all about except they gUI guess H freedom is involved We the people in iii this free land of America worry about living with with a possible tax increase high officials worry about living with with a world opinion the OI UJ over there worries only about livin living Ho lIo would give H a ninths months s pay for a I sound oun sleep and ll ten ten years earll of his life for a night at Home Moreover orro lr he is usually a IL very young American citizen in iu a 8 hell of a fix Tho The average age of the tho combat G G. 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I in many units waits in its Viet Nam is years But what a man he is islA I IA A pink pink cheeked cheeked tousled tousled haired haired tight muscled fellow who under normal would he be considered b by society as man half half boy not yet et clr dry behind the ears a pain in the unemployment chart But here nod and now he is the tho beardless hope of free man maul He lie is for the most t part unmarried and without material possessions except for possibly siLI an old car eliI at lit home and a II tran transistor ra radio io with him hint lie III still has hiis trouble spelling and writing letters letter home is a painful process lint But he lie can break do down a II rifle riCh in ill ao 30 seconds and ami put it back together in iii 29 seconds He lie can tell all ab about ut the grenade Ille explain how a n machine gun operates and of eom course UI use C either if the need arises urises He Ill CUll can also dig foxholes apply professional fh first first aid taid aid to a woun wounded ed compan compall ion lout march until he is told to stop slop or stop until he is told to march marelu He lit obeys be s 's now without he hesitation But he lie i is not broken Ho has hils seen more suffering titan than he should lucre have in ill his short life He lie has stood tood among hills of bodies bodil's and he lie has hns helped to construct tho e hills He III has wept in iii private and in ill public and amid he has hils not been ashamed l' l either ther place because e his pals hll have fallen in ill battle and he has lias come close t to joining them theist He can do the work of two civilians draw half hull the pay puy of one and amid find ironic humor in it all lie has ha learned to use his hands a as a IL weapon and his w weapon a as his hi hands lillIs l Eighteen and anti a II half years old alit What a It man he is already al al- al rea ready r G G G. Is I.'s have given gi their lives in Viet Nam since the ho war Will started Already sonic some of our own have been ou wounded One of our boys Los while out omit on for patrol days s came back to his camp the Viet Vilt Cong had bombed the camp the tent tent teut w ni the bin bo had slept ryas blown up nothing left of it it These Thle mire ure the thu men you Oll remember not th the dirt not the hanger danger 1 th the i the bullets the L booby ob traps the the the traps the heat the leeches o 01 or the mosquitoes not the tho fear or the tho loneliness The men that's men that's what stays with Oll you Not fot that 1 Jo they're thero such special men they're every kin kind of gu guy from every cerr kind of place from North orth Carolina to Oregon Some of them weren't much to of some ome us in ill civilian l life School dropouts and sonic some some delinquent kids But they're- they're something different now There Thero are arc many many dangers in ill Viet San Xam besides the fighting No one is safe no time is safe even the cautious can cat the die nut and the they do And then before Ih the battle the Ihl devout the tl skeptical and till the merely fl frightened g turn to pray each pray each in ill Ii his is o own faith each in ill his own Th way They ask mik for fOl and courage coinage protection ak k for far u life itself Will the they ha have a 1 place 1 in ill lt oc when th I k hak If if th they do ho fIt f It Its It's It hII true tree that these r arc are not the only ho boys bogs s 's w who ho have to Will war others have gone gOlle lost their lives jn's for fol their II of th these then country so will md quid Ii have 1111 a e. e But what fl are 1111 iv these there s lm Lighting fighting for for Xo one seems to be Ill- IIII ably to Ji give Is a II good answer r it t to I stop top communism from from W which I spreading to America I 11 I is IS II already I hero here or OJ is i it for political gain gainT f Who knows Ono Omi more thing how Ita mahout about our draft Ia laws ls vs and f faun of the these l' l boys hOJ's who do not pass S are 00 OO pounds or 01 better yet jet a 1 ho boy of or 01 13 pounds pound Many I rs mire are said to have bad had knees s ball b basketball yet yot they thoy can ski ki play pla football foot foot- be right and many other types t of games Can this I 1 say let let en every bodied able boy take his hi turn in ill the take his turn draft in the tho fighting I 1 say sy one bo boy is the tho ot other other hel Signed no 1 better than |