This keynote happened more towards the end of the year when students had learned to take information from my lectures rather than copying straight from very wordy slides. I use an outline instead of textual definitions.
10. WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
USA VIETMINH
Superior weaponry Home court advantage
VS.
Military personnel numbers Guerilla tactics
Disguise
My clothes were 鍖lthy and Tunnels
ragged...With no boots, my socks were
barely recognizable...My conditions and Booby traps
predicament were so foreign to me, so Land mines
sti鍖ing, so overwhelming. Id never been
so hungry, so grimy, and in such pain.
- American Gerald Coffee Support from China and SU
12. How hard it was to
WIN THE PEOPLE
CIVIL WAR vs. CONTAINMENT
- Ideologies
- Peasants
SATURATION BOMBING
- Agent Orange
- Napalm
...prostate cancer, respiratory cancers, multiple myeloma, type II diabetes, Hodgkins disease, non-
Hodgkin's lymphoma, soft tissue sarcoma, chloracne, porphyria cutanea tarda, peripheral neuropathy,
chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and spina bi鍖da in children of veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
13. Search and Destroy:
Kill Livestock
Burn Villages
Contaminate
Eliminate
the Enemy
We had to destroy the town in order to save it
- American soldier in Ben Tre
14. WAR AT HOME
AMERICAN ATTRITION
TELEVISION
CREDIBILITY GAP
DRAFT
15. THE NEW LEFT
SDS
(Students for a
Democratic Society)
Hawks vs. Doves