It is their war. They are the ones you have to win it or lose it. We can help them, give them equipment, send our men out there as advisors, but they have to win it, the people of vietnam, against the communists. [explosions] the explosion of events has given the ring of anachronism and ancient history. These are u. S. Soldiers, fighting on vietnams front lines. They are giving their lives, they are not just giving their advice. To a degree never foreseen by candidates, we hold the destiny of vietnam in our hands, and it holds hours. , 14,000american troops american dead, 50 billion american dollars later 50 later, american dollars their war is not for them to win or lose, it is ours as well. It has become the most divisive and 100 years of american history. It is is it a war we are winning . Can progress be measured . To the match the effort . These are the subjects of these broadcasts tonight. This special report where we stand in vietnam, is brought to you by western electric, the m
You just try to put it behind you and go on with life. Did you have to deal with people who were critical of our involvement in vietnam or did you just not talk about it at all . Botheredvery few who most of them didnt know that i was involved in vietnam. We just went about life. I was never really in that kind of situation where people work trying were trying to attack me or anything like that. You enjoyed your time talking to the public . I loved it. Im think that the archives to this. My grandson and i were down at the wall the other day. It was a wonderful experience for them. I ran across a man down there and he said where were you in vietnam and i said i was at camp he said, were you a bikini . I said yeah. How do you get that . He said, well, youre a pilot. He was in the three 61st 361st, the pink panthers. Both of our companies were in the central highlands. He supported the fourth division. We supported artillery units and the special forces out of pontoon. With the cobra unit
Beleaguered marine, holed up in a chapel, called the peace chapel. Peace church, yes. And it was a dramatic picture of a soldier under the duress of combat right there, with the enemy surrounding the place. It was a really dramatic couple of days for this squad, from a downed helicopter. But that photograph acquired a history all of its own. Can you trace the impact of that photograph . It took on a 37year history that i could never have ever believed or, you know that that would take place over any photograph that i ever shot. But it happened may 15, 1967. I remember it like it was you and i talking now. But i had gotten dropped into a search and destroy operation up in that providence. And we werent on the ground for 15 minutes, and it was the First Battalion marines. They had been hit pretty bad. The day before, they had taken a lot of casualties. And i was no sooner on the ground walking over to link up with them, and all of a sudden, the north vietnamese had us surrounded like 30
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And ive heard confessions and i know people struggling with these issues and i always have that in front of my mind when im speaking about it. And i think what we need to do is exactly what jesus did when he and now im speaking from a theological point of view and ill let you political thinks put it into your own belly lick. But jesus when he engages the woman who objectively has committed adultery and under the mosaic law, the penalty was stoning, doesnt say dont stone her. First he engages the woman. Not directly at first. But she has this sense that he loves her and he deals with her accusers and establishes himself on her side and then he finally says to her in the end, go and sib sin no more, which makes the whole story. That is the hard thing. It is to hold up justice and still permeate it with love. Because Justice Without love becomes cruelty. And i think that is what we need to do. Now how would you translate that into political wonkery, that is your job to do that. I dont thi