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Jewelers ♦ Gemoloctsts WIDEST SELECTION ORIGINAL DESIGNS *8 EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE 522 UNIVERSITY DR EAST 764.8786 BETWEEN THE SUIT CLUB & AUDIO VIDEO "Terms and restrictions apply. MSC Voices of a Generation c<. America remains an open-policy nation of opportunity for anyone who is willing to work hard in pursuit of their vision of the American Dream.” - Ericka Dunlap jml jyc 2004 Wednesday, February n, 2004 7:00 PM Rudder Theatre Admission is free Tickets available at MSC Box Office Or call 845-1234 (fey, 845-1514 http://voices.tamu.edu Monday, February 9, 2004 THE BATTALION Echoes of Vietnam Campaign raises new issues 35 years latei By Nancy Benac THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Echoes of Vietnam WASHINGTON — They were two years apart, these two Yale boys, these sons of privilege, and so the moment of truth came first for John Kerry, later for George W. Bush. Each faced the same life-changing question as did so many others of their generation: what to do about Vietnam. Kerry, part of the class of 1966, signed on with the Navy late in 1965, then had months to ponder his decision before actu ally enlisting after graduation. The war, his decision, his doubts, all hung over him as he spoke at commencement the fol lowing June. “What was an excess of isola tionism has become an excess of interventionism,” he told fellow students. He had to know his life was set on a course for Vietnam. For Bush, a member of the class of 1968, his last year in college seemed to signal the end of a time of innocence. “The gravity of history was beginning to descend in a horrify ing and disruptive way,” he wrote in his 1999 biography. “By the time the ball dropped in Times Square to welcome 1968, the situ ation in Vietnam had escalated from a conflict to a raging war. Every night the newscast included a body count.” Bush debated his options over Christmas break back home in Houston, took a pilot aptitude test after he got back to school in January, and chose the National Guard. He would fly fighter jets like his father. He had to know the odds of going to Vietnam were low. Nearly 40 years later, the choices made by these two young Thirty-five years after the end of war in Vietnam, the choices candidates made as young men eligible to serve in that era sem as part of a larger debate over patriotism, leadership and charade ■ ■ . a President Bush Wesley Clark Sen. John Kerry Attends Yale University Yale Graduates West Point at top of his class Rhodes Scholar, Oxford Graduates Yale; joins Navymj begins officer training Assigned to frigate USS Grill) 1968 Graduates Yale, joins Texas Air National Guard; takes eight-week leave to work on Senate campaign in Florida Graduates Oxford with masters in philosophy, economics aiKl politics, attends Army armor and infantry schools; commands company in 82nd Airborne Division in Kansas First trip to Southeast Asia to support aircraft carriers in Gild Tonkin; swift boal training in California; returns to Vietnam to coastal and inland waterway patrol, shoulder wound during firefight 1969 Graduates (light school at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia Goes to Vietnam with 1 st Infantry Division Wounded in thigh; wins She Star for chasing and killing i sniper after landing boat In en«i| position; gets third Purple He* when mine explodes near but returns to New York to serve a admiral s aide 1970 Graduates Combat Crew Training School at Ellington Air Force Base in Texas Commands a company In the 16th Infantry In Vietnam Silver Star alter being shot while leading jungle patrol, returns to Kentucky to command armored brigade Honorable discharge six monto before commitment ends to nn for House seat in Massachusefe but gives up bid for Democratic nomination; joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War. 1971 Drills and alerts at Ellington Officer attached to Army chief of staff in Washington. D C . becomes a West Point instructor Organizes anti-war proteste« Washington. D.C.; losses hswj nbbons in protest: testifies to Congress against conflict, g* arrested at protest 1972 Takes last flight as guard pilot; transfers to Alabama unit while working on campaign; no record of him reporting, but says he participated; loses flight credentials; returns to Texas West Point instructor Leaves anti-war group; wins nomination for Massachusetts Fifth District in House but loses election; worked as fund-raisef for CARE. Inc. 1973 Participates in non-flying drills at Ellington, works at inner-city poverty program; placed on inactive guard duty six months before commitment ends; starts Harvard Business School West Point instructor Starts Boston College Law School 1974 Harvard Business School Assistant professor of social sciences at West Point; becomes student at U S Anny Command and General Staff College. Ft. Leavenworth. Kan Boston College Law Scftool SOURCE: Assodared Press men are reverberating through the presidential campaign as part of a larger debate over patriotism, leadership, duty, character. Each man is defined in part by the path he chose. “We are all hostage to deci sions we made in the past,” said Douglas Brinkley, a history pro fessor at the University of New Orleans who has written a book about Kerry’s war years. “The bottom line is Kerry went and Bush didn't and it’s an uncom fortable fact for a president” who has so eagerly wrapped himself in the Bag as command er in chief. Yet Brinkley said the two- year age difference betweec Kerry and Bush is an important backdrop to the courses they set In 1965, when Kerry decided to enlist, students “still sawtk world in black and white,’ Brinkley said, and “not serving wasn’t really an option”fortke son of a foreign service officer, “His big decision was branch of the military to join, said Brinkley. 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Many residents have formed neighborhood groups to back insurgents in their push to expel the president. “After Aristide leaves, the country will return to normal,” said Axel Philippe, 34, among dozens massed on the highway leading to St. Marc, a city of about 100,000 located some 45 miles northwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince. At least 18 people have been killed since armed opponents of Aristide began their assault Thursday, setting police stations on fire and driving officers from the northwestern city of Gonaives .— Haiti’s fourth- 0 40 mi Atlantic Ocean 0 40 km HAITI t Gonaives At least 18 killed in recent rebel activity DOM REP. Port-au-Prince FjoridBf"-'^ A 200 mi Miami 200 km 51 \ BAHAMAS" \ > Atlantic Ocean DOM. 1 REP- ^ (.-rj -r 4" Caribbean Sea H A | T I JAMAICA: ^ l.- n."i 4" SOURCES: Associated Press; ESRI AP largest city and several small er nearby towns. Anger has been brewing in Haiti since Aristide’s party won flawed legislative elections in 2000. The opposition refuses to join in any new vote unless the president resigns; he insists on serving out his term, which ends in 2006. Clashes between government opponents, police and Aristide supporters have killed at least 69 people since mid-September. In the bloodiest fights o( recent days, 150 police triedlo retake control of Gonaives on Saturday but left hours after meeting fierce resistance, witnesses said. At least nine people were killed, seven ol them police, in gunbattles will rebels hiding on side streets and crouched in doorways. Crowds mutilated and beai the corpses of three police offi cers. One body was dragged through the street as a man swung at it with a machete, and a woman cut off the officer’s eat, Another policeman was lynched and stripped to his shorts, residents dropped large rockso» his body. Haitian radio stations repott ed claims by other rebels thatas many as 14 police were Gonaives on Saturday, couldn’t be confimted. 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