communist captors. i wanted to know how the antiwar movement began. will the committee come to order? the committee continuing its hearings on proposals relating to the ending of the war in southeast asia. john and i were on different paths with respect to the war in vietnam. my war was down in the delta mostly, and seeing the war on a ground level led me to believe we were on a quixotic errand, and it weighed on me in a way that made me a very vocal and determined anti-war activist after i came back. each day to facilitate the process by which the united states washes her hands of vietnam someone has to give up his life, so that the united states doesn t have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we cannot
ground level led me to believe we were on a quixotic errand, and it weighed on me in a way that made me a very vocal and determined anti-war activist after i came back. each day to facilitate the process by which the united states washes her hands of vietnam someone has to give up his life, so that the united states doesn t have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we cannot say that we ve made a mistake. it didn t change my mind but what was very revealing was how mishandled the conflict was and how there was never a strategy for victory. someone has to die so that president nixon won t be, and these are his words, the first president to lose a war. the most offensive to me was that we didn t tell the american people the truth.