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Monday, August 29, 1C33 Daily Ncbrcskcn Pen 3 5 Vietnam War . . . Cc-tln-td Cran Pt-3 4 "I have friends who served in Viet nam . . Buckley writes. "They c!l saw death up cke every dry, end nar.y days dealt with it themselves. They're married, happy, secure, good at what they do; they don't have nightmares and they dont shoot up gas stations with 1.1-163. Each has a gentleness I find rare in meet ethers, and beneath it a spiritual sinew that I ascribe to their experience in the war. I dont think 111 ever have what they have, the aura of "I have been weighed on the scales and have not been found want ing " and my sense at this point is that I ' will always feel the lack of it . . "1 win always feel the lack cf if I think many cf us are juct becir.nins to realize that. It know that when I meet those men cf my feneration who did serve in Vietnam, I automatically feci less worthy than they are; yes, less cf a man, if you want to ues that phrase. Those of us who did net have to go to Vietnam may have felt, at 'the time, that we were gettir j awry with some-thin-; may have felt, at the tine, that we were the recipients cf a particular piece of luck that had value beyond price. But now, I think, we realise that by the chance to learn certain things about ourselves that only men who have been in war together will ever truly know. Our fathers learned those things in World War II; our sons, God forbid, may learn them in some future - conflict. But we these cf us who did net go managed to avoid something that would have helped form us into different people than we are now. Buckley writes that "by not putting on uniforms, we forfeited what miht have been the ultimate opportunity, in increasin;lyself-cbsessed times, of mak ing the ultimate commitment to some thing greater than ourselves: the sur vival cf comrades." But I think it may & even beyond that; I think it may go to the very defi nition, cf our manhood. I know that when I meet a man who, it turns out, has served in Vietnam, part of me wonders whether he b able to read my mind. 1533, Tribune Cocipsr.y Syndicate, Inc. NOTElCaa TO TUDMT All student! ere et&bla to apply for a refund cf thsir Fund "A" portion of students feel beginning Aug. 29, 1C33throush Sept 30, 1E33. , (A) Application forms are available at Student Activities Financial Services Office, 222 Nebraska Union; ACUN Office,: 115 Nebraska Union; or East CAP Office, Nebraska East Union. Students should bring their student I.D. at-the time of application and aain when picking-up refunds. , ,.,... - ' (B) Students who have completed a refund application and returned it on or before Sept 3D, 1C33 may pick up their refund at the Student Activities Financier Services Office, 222 Nebraska Union beginning Oct 3, 1S33 through Oct 14,1233. - Fund "A" refund amounts are as follows: A.S.U.N. $1.34 Daily Nebraskan .CO State Student Association .50 University Prosram Council 2.42 TOTAL REFUND 13.16 ft i V i . x .... .