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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
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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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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. MARC, Haiti — Hundreds
of Haitians looted TV sets, mat
tresses and sacks of flour from
shipping containers Sunday in this
port town, one of several commu
nities seized by rebels in a bloody
uprising against President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide.
Using felled trees, flaming
tires and car chassis, residents
blocked streets throughout St.
Marc a day after militants drove
out police in gunbattles that killed
two people. 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
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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.
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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
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