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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

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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

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«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





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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.

Cambodia seemed a good move
at the time because Americans
were being shot at and couldn't
decide one way or another what
to do about it, Bentson said.

There are veterans who have
reasons for not joining the antiwar
movement just as there are stu-
dents, workers, businessmen,
minorities and politicians who shy
away from peace activities.

The war’s supporters are now in
the minority just like those who
opposed the war for years used to
be. Only the supporters are not as
vocal. If they stay out of the
limelight they will probably never
become an oppressed group which
the activist peace movement was
and still is.

Nixon’s much cliched ‘silent
majority”. has now become the
silent minority.

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