Autograph letter : place not specified, to "Alicia," [1965-1967].

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Autograph letter : place not specified, to "Alicia," [1965-1967].

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Discussing a televised account of the burning of a Vietnamese village by American soldiers; relating his own war experience to the issues these soldiers would have faced in this situation; relating a letter he received from the sister of a solider who was in that Vietnamese village and wrote to his sister defending the actions taken; saying "Nobody likes or wants war. The ones who want it over more than any are those fighting it. They would get out tomorrow if they could;" defending those who are protesting the war saying "it takes a lot of courage to disagree with your country when it is at war;"

1 item (3 p.) ; 33.5 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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