Monday, August 29, 1C33
Daily Ncbrcskcn
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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.
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