They Also Serve

a THEY ALSO SERVE. Today there are 500,000 American troops in Vietnam, the great majority of them – under 21 years of age. While their contemporaries at home work, relax, marry, attend college, and—some of them— demonstrate against our “imperialist venture” in Southeast Asia, these men do the man’s work of fighting. Marvin Liebman (right), journalist and publicist who in his own youth served with the Irgun in illegally transporting Jewish refugees to Palestine, visited Vietnam Con Thien and Da Nang, he talked with young soldiers and airmen. We reproduce the comments of nine of them, on the war, the future, and the – in October. In and around situation at home. Photographs by Raymond Cranbourne, Empire News.

eat ge THEY ALSO SERVE… “TI think we should move on to the North and fight this war even harder, if possible, so that we can finish it sooner. If we don’t stop them here, they’ll be after our own country, the United States. This is why we’re here, I guess. I don’t understand all those peace dem- onstrations back home. It’s like those people are going against their own country. I don’t like it one bit. You know, we all get banged up here and then, if we can, we go back into action again. So we’re doing the best we can. I just don’t know what they are trying to prove back home. When all of this is over, I’m going back to my place in Vermont where Ill try to start a ski lodge. I’ll be very happy with that. I won’t be able to do it if the Communists are there, will I?” Lance Corporal Michael Stark, 20, Bartonsville, Vermont. “I was

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a THEY ALSO SERVE. Today there are 500,000 American troops in Vietnam, the great majority of them – under 21 years of age. While their contemporaries at home work, relax, marry, attend college, and—some of them— demonstrate against our “imperialist venture” in Southeast Asia, these men do the man’s work of fighting. Marvin Liebman (right), journalist and publicist who in his own youth served with the Irgun in illegally transporting Jewish refugees to Palestine, visited Vietnam Con Thien and Da Nang, he talked with young soldiers and airmen. We reproduce the comments of nine of them, on the war, the future, and the – in October. In and around situation at home. Photographs by Raymond Cranbourne, Empire News.

eat ge THEY ALSO SERVE… “TI think we should move on to the North and fight this war even harder, if possible, so that we can finish it sooner. If we don’t stop them here, they’ll be after our own country, the United States. This is why we’re here, I guess. I don’t understand all those peace dem- onstrations back home. It’s like those people are going against their own country. I don’t like it one bit. You know, we all get banged up here and then, if we can, we go back into action again. So we’re doing the best we can. I just don’t know what they are trying to prove back home. When all of this is over, I’m going back to my place in Vermont where Ill try to start a ski lodge. I’ll be very happy with that. I won’t be able to do it if the Communists are there, will I?” Lance Corporal Michael Stark, 20, Bartonsville, Vermont. “I was