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And kind of a rosy view of spiritual practices of native americans. You get this kind of dualism. So actually to the extent that whites paid attention to this spiritual practices of native americans, they saw in a kind of favorable sort of way. Its kind of a strange sort of double thing. Attitudes toward native americans exist side by side. Did your research on the native americans involve any way that the native americans tribe treated each other and their type of warfare . Is that looked at or considered . Yeah, i can talk a little bit more about that. Western indians practiced mutilation as a matter of course. Within native american culture, this kind of mutilation had a cultural significance and understanding that. When native americans practiced the kind of mutilations that they did against one another on white soldiers, this is the kind of thing that drove white soldiers into a fury. Does that address your question . Can you tell me about the lib a code . Yeah, what youre talking
Theres no understanding of america in the 1970s without understanding how the decade began in relationship to the war in vietnam. Normally live casualties for the previously week are released on thursday, but fighting has been so bitter that military sources released the casualties unofficially today. 340 americans and 527 South Vietnamese were killed last week. Enemy dead were reported to be more than 5,000. There was some grumbling among numbers of young g. I. S taking part in the assaults, questioning whether the objective is worth the bloodshed. Out here in this very difficult war, i thinks history will report this may have been one of americas finest hours because we took a difficult task and we succeeded. Youre doing your job. I can assure you were going to try to do ours to see that they didnt fight in vain. Thank you very much. Nixon did not want to be the first president of the United States to lose a war. It was a matter of personal pride with him. His basic goal was to end t
End of the tunnel, and there is no light there. Theres no understanding of america in the 1970s without understanding how the decade began in relationship to the war in vietnam. Normally live casualties for the previous week are released on thursday. But fighting in the last week has been so bitter that military sources released the casualties unofficially today. 340 americans and 527 South Vietnamese were killed last week. Enemy dead were reported to be more than 5,000. There was some grumbling among numbers of young g. I. S taking part in the assaults, questioning whether the objective is worth the bloodshed. Out here in this very difficult war, i think history will report this may have been one of americas finest hours because we took a difficult task, and we succeeded. Youre doing your job. I can assure you were going to try to do ours to see that you didnt fight in vein. Thank you very much. Nixon did not want to be the first president of the United States to lose a war. It was a
dimension in washington today. men who have been there began demonstrations armed with speeding the end to the conflict. bring our brothers home businessmen have protested. students have protested. mothers have protested. everybody has. but the men who fought the war who know what it s like, who know what we are fighting haven t. and it s the first time in history they re going to do that. the lieutenant died so i got a medal. i got a silver star, purple heart. it s in the rest of this garbage. it doesn t mean a thing! [ cheers and applause ] good evening. the war in vietnam has often been camouflaged by misleading statistics of body counts, weapons captured, hamlets pacified. but we are now in the midst of new more revealing statistics, the 2.5 million words of the pentagon papers. these once secret papers tell the agonizing story of the u.s. involvement in vietnam through