写给女儿的话Lesson 14:
I Would Like to Tell You Something
I would like to tell you something about what veterans are doing in this country, and about our feeling now that we’ve come back from a war we didn't really want to fight.
A little over a week ago we held an investigation in Detroit
where over 150 honorably discharged veterans, many of them highly decorated, testified to war crimes committed in Indochina—not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
The investigation was not staged so that veterans could spill out their hearts or purge their souls; it was done to prove that the policy of the United States in Indochina is tantamount to genocide, and that not only the soldiers are responsible for what is happening, but that everyone here in America who has allowed the brutalization and de-personalization to go on is responsible.
It was done also to show that you don't start making things right by procuting William Galley, no matter how guilty he may be; you also procute the men who encouraged the situation.
巨蟹座女生的性格It was done to show that there is not just one Mylai but countless Mylais and they are continuing every single day.
There was an almost total press blackout on the testimony of tho veterans.
But this isn't new to tho of us who were in the war.
I can remember traveling to Saigon and trying to talk to the admiral who commanded the naval forces to tell him that what we were doing was wrong.
I remember going to a writer for a national magazine and telling him this was a story the American people should hear.
He agreed, but said it would never get by his desk becau the Army would rescind the m
agazine's accreditation to cover the war, and if you don't cover the war you don't ll magazines, and if you don't ll magazines then nothing happens becau that’s the American way.
让我告诉你
我想告诉你这个国家的退伍老兵在干什么，告诉你我们从自己实在不愿再拼命的战争中归来的情感。
如何选购二胡一个多星期以前，我们在底特律举行了一场调查会。
会议上，150多名光荣的退伍老兵，其中许多人功勋卓著，证明了美军在印度支那犯下的罪行——不是一些零星事件，而是各级军官都知晓的每天都在发生的事情。
情愿的意思调查会没有公开进行，因此老兵们可以敞开心扉，坦白自己的战争罪行以清除心灵上的负罪感。调查会的目的是为了证实美国在印度支那的政策无异于种族屠杀，不仅士兵们要对正在发生的一切负责，所有纵容这种灭绝人性、惨绝人寰的惨剧发生的国人们都难逃责咎。
调查会还为了表明：起诉一个威廉加利，无论他是如何罪大恶极，都于事无补，你还要起诉支持这一切的人们。
调查会证明梅莱事件并非只有一次，而是每天都有无数的梅莱事件在继续上演。
没有新闻媒体报道这些老兵们的控诉。工作执行力
这对于参加过战争的我们没有任何新意。
春说课稿我依然记得去过赛根，并设法与那里的海军上将交谈，告诉他我们在做的一切都是错误的。
我记得过去找过一位国家级杂志的撰稿者，告诉他这是个美国人民应该知道的故事。
他同意我的看法，但他却说这个故事不会离开他的书桌，附梓出版，因为部队会取消他们杂志报道战争的资格。如果你不报道战争，杂志就卖不出去；杂志卖不出去，美国人就会认为什么事都没有发生。美国就是这样。
But the press isn't the only party in this country that's guilty of this rampant innsitivity.
When I went to the chairman of the board of a large New York-bad firm and asked him for money to help us get transcripts of the testimony to prent to each member of Congress so that we can press our demands for open hearings, 1 was told in riousness: "I don't think you can market war crimes—it s a marketing question, you know.”
And then in the next breath to his executive vice-president: "Hell, we ud to do that in World War II. Christ, what's new?"
We all know that this de-nsitizing started a long time ago in this country, but it is carried out in a far more vicious way with the soldier.
At boot camp he's prented with a poster in his barracks of a crucified Vietname and underneath it says, "Kill the gooks."
The message begins to sink in.
During training, calisthenics are done to a four-count, and at the end of the four-count eve
rybody jumps up and yells "Kill!"
For the Marines at Camp Pendleton, before they depart for Vietnam, there's a very special treat; the rgeant takes a live rabbit and skins it, tearing it open, pulling out the entrails to throw at the asmbled soldiers, saying, "That's how it's done in Nam; go get'em. Marines!
And so we're suddenly faced with a sickening situation in this country.
There's no longer any moral indignation.
And if there is, it comes from people who are almost exhausted from past indignities inflicted on them.
The country ems to be lying down and accepting something as rious as Laos, just as before we dismisd the loss of 700,000 lives in Pakistan, the so-called greatest disaster of all time.
Well, I think we're in the midst of the greatest disaster of all time right now, becau they are still dying over there every day.
And I don't just mean American boys.
And the mass of people in this country literally don't give a damn.
女人的内心世界After all, you can switch off the TV news and put on Dick Van Dyke.
在这个国家，并非只有新闻媒体才应对这蔓延的冷漠负责。永宁河
我去过一家总部在纽约的大公司，请求董事会主席赞助，帮我们印刷提交给每位国会议员的证词副本，这样我们就可以强烈要求举行公开听证会。他却严肃地告诉我：“我认为你不能将战争罪行公诸于众——你知道，这是一个营销策略问题。”
