= s vo ° o o ~ 2 ° vo vo oles ~ fs 4 ~ °° —_ ie > oO = > o vo om We N vo aD . a (continued from page 1) South Vietnamese, another local veteran said withdrawal would be a dishonor for those Americans who have died, or lost arms or legs. Larry Moore, 26, was an army sergeant in Vietnam for six months in 1968 until he was severely wounded. He said _ it would be a “dirty blow to them (the dead and amputees) to just pull out now.” Although he had no suggestions on how to do it, he said he felt the United States should plan some worthwhile, sensible and logical way of ending the war to save face for those Americans who died or were torn apart. He said the politicians who are keeping the war going at the rate it is should visit army hospitals like Fitzsimmons in Denver and he also blamed big businessmen for keeping the war going. Although Moore is concerned with maintaining the honor of the wounded, he has definite reserva- tions about the entire war. He called it “a stupid war, not even a war.” The Cambodian and Laos incur- sions were just a “big act’ according to Moore because the situation is as bad as before the American military went in. As for Calley, Moore said he didn’t think only one man should be tried for what happened there. Now that he’s home, Moore said he did not think he could kill but when you are in a field for 30 days with three other guys and one is killed you feel you’re ‘‘one up” if a Viet Cong is shot. Moore is now working as a carpenter in Boulder and says he has not heard too much about the VVAW. He said he feels more antiwar since he was discharged but still can’t see getting up and walking off from Indochina. A recent article in the Rocky Mountain News stated there are few people outside the John Birch Society who still believe in a total military victory in Vietnam. A 23-year-old ex-marine who claims he was one-half mile into North Vietnam in 1967 believes it is not too late for an_ all-out invasion to bring Hanoi to its knees. Randy Wold left Vietnam in September 1967 after spending 14 months in the infantry as a lance corporal. He was the only one interviewed to admit it was racist war. He said he resented finding dead “gooks” with American-made watches. Calley, he said, should have been acquitted because he nt a DO tas ee ve e p a a ey eae ee i % > me ¢ a 4 a a ap ——) ) arr PX Jae OK was right. Wold, who is now a tree trimmer, said although he nearly vomited when he shot a Viet Cong for the first time, he later saw seven others die from his gun and added “I! wish | could have got more. I'd like to line up the gooks and shoot them.” When he went past the DMZ into North Vietnam Wold said his unit wanted to go further but they were too small in number. ‘Once the war started, it should be finished and that means bombing the north and invading with all fire power, he said. The South Vietnamese, he said, have ‘’a lower standard of living’ than the Americans and need their help. He said he hates the North Vietnamese because “! got a purple heart from those pigs.” His attitude towards the peace movement was similarly strong. He thought the VVAW actions in Washington, D.C. were “really poor” and the GI’s throwing away their medals were just following the group. Wold said he belongs to a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post in Minnesota and although he’s the only Vietnam veteran there, he enjoys the company of the older members. He said he finds them a more friendly group than the American Legion, which according to him, doesn’t know | what's going on in Vietnam. Wold’s comments were atypical} of most of the opinions expresseq by the group of veterans. Al- though many of the others thought communism poses a threat to South Vietnam, only Wold said he felt he was fighting to save the United States. He was the only one to say he joined the military for the purpose of fight- ing in Vietnam. Wold said he thought many more Americans were killed than ‘‘He admitted that if he had been in the infantry, he might have felt differently about the war.’”’ o~ > MI 7 ‘S D> F voinswie = fe IN LUXURY = >} was reported, but his friend, Tim «Moss, 24, who was an army radarman in Vietnam from Octo- ber 1966 to October 1967, thought the opposite was true. iioss was drafted when he got out of high school but enlisted for an extra year. He said as an American, he was glad to do his service, when the government says each male has the obligation to serve his country. He said he believes students are protesting because they don't want to go to Vietnam and risk being killed but they ‘‘don’t know what they are talking about.” Based on associated press stories run in the Boulder Daily Camera he received while in Vietnam, the a good soldier... United States has received a curved picture of the war, Moss said. He feels the South Vietnamese will not be able to defend themselves if. American forces evacuate the country, even with American equipment and if they learn to read and write English. The veterans who threw their medals away in Washington “pro- bably didn’t deserve them any- way,” according to Moss and he said he did not know if he deserved his decorations but felt greatly honored to receive them. During his year in Vietnam, Moss said he did not see any combat action and wanted to get up and move into Cambodia or Laos. But when Cambodia was invaded last spring, Moss said he didn’t give it much thought. Although he yenerally accepted the war while he was there, Moss said one of the things he resented most was finding South Koreans with spotless 15-year-old Ameri- can-made guns while the new ones provided the Americans often didn’t work. Moss, who now works in Safe- way, said he would like to see the war eventually wound down to a halt. Another veteran who accepted the condition of the war is Dick Bentson, 27, who spent 10 months as a helicopter pilot until he was shot down by mortar fire in Vietnam. Bentson, currently a University physics major, expressed no bit- terness about his three or four months in an army _ hospital recuperating from his injuries. He said he “sort of expected it.” He is. not as positive toward continuing the war as the other veterans interviewed, but he thinks Nixon is getting the United States out of the war. He admitted he had kind of a “high school boy attitude’’ towards the war while in Vietnam. 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