MB Civic

By Richard N. Goodwin | Wednesday, December 26, 2007 | The Boston Globe

“…THERE WAS little in the turning of the year to warn of the tumultuous events that were to give 1968 its special place in American history. On New Year’s Eve, Waterville, N.H., skiers made their last run; while farther to the north, in Berlin, young men and women walked though lightly falling snow, knocking on friendly rural doors, talking to the residents about an unknown United States senator, Eugene McCarthy.

Then came the guns of January; explosions shattered the streets of nearly every major city in South Vietnam. Americans began to question not the war itself, but whether it was worth the deaths, the economic dislocations, the domestic divisions. And what about all the promises of imminent victory made by the leaders of the country. Did they know? Or were they lying?….”…BS

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