"Yeah, but I see
posters in their windows saying, "Get out of Vietnam, Now." You must know
they're full of radical propaganda."
"You don't think the military feeds the troops
propaganda?"
"I read what I trust
and I"ve always gotten plenty of information from the Navy, Newsweek, and CBS.
I've never heard anyone call that propaganda."
As I read the sources
these students suggested, gradually I began to recognize much of the
information our government fed the public was
propaganda. In my sheltered and controlled military existence, I had let my
purpose in life drift far from those values that had almost led me into the
ministry. I began to consider for the first time that the peace marchers might
be right. They were not wild-eyed radicals bent on tearing down America. After
three months, I joined VVAW and Vets for Peace before my ship departed with
fifty books from Berkeley, a beacon from a lighthouse that kept me from sinking
and enlightened my path.
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