Show STEVE REESE PRESIDENT OF SENIOR CLASS Superintendent Nelson Principal Madsen parents re relatives relatives re- re lati ves friends and fellow grad grad- When I was given the various topics of current events events' I decided then that I would write and talk about my feelings of why we should stay and fight in Viet Nam for I felt everyone everyone everyone every every- one in this audience should and would be concerned about the themen themen themen men who are giving their lives to American justice and democracy demo demo- cracy As a person very Interested in the Viet Nam wal I 1 would like to ask the American people these three questions I 1 l. What has become of our courage 2 What has become of our loyalty to others and 3 What has become of the noble concept call Patriotism If U in our desperate days of World War II H we had been torn tornby tornby tornby by this kind of discord I 1 doubt that we and our allies alUes could have won No one who believes in our democratic processes can object to h honorable 0 nor a b I e dissent This is a part of the American Ameri Ameri- can way part of our birth birth- right There are those who now sincerely believe that we should not and do not have any business in Viet Nam They are terribly and dangerously wrong but they have the right to tate their views Not long ago for example a young US U.S. senator was quoted as saying U If If we are fighting in Viet Nam to protect protect protect pro pro- ourselves then we are selfishly immoral This seems wrong for we should be fighting for ourselves and also for tor other small countries countries countries coun coun- tries a against g a ins t the eventual domination of Communism fome To fo Tome Tome me it would be very wrong not notto notto notto to resist a tyranny whose openly avowed purpose is to subjugate the earth and especially the United States of America A A ludicrous and dangerous aspect of this bitter quarrel is the large number of public men who regard themselves as military experts expert One lar large e de defeatist defeatist de- de group proclaims ms loudly and t that hat h a t we can never win the Viet Nam war others insist that our military troops should sit down in de defense defense defense de- de enclaves until the enemy gets tired and goes home These people I 1 feel are not working for the good of the ther r- r |