"Happy Memorial Day, Mr. Kissinger"

[Joanna Sheldon]

At 23:49 31-05-01, Gordon wrote:
>Yoshie Furuhashi:
> > The victory of the Vietnamese should have been an occasion for
> > celebration for the majority of Americans who had come to oppose the
> > Vietnam War, but American defeat doesn't seem to have brought much
> > joy to anti-war & even leftist Americans.  Why no celebration?  ...
>
>There didn't seem to be much to celebrate.  Two million
>Vietnamese dead, maybe, millions more maimed, their country
>wrecked, fifty-odd thousand Americans dead, hundreds of billions
>of dollars taxed out of the workers and poured down the rathole,
>the perps mostly unscathed and unrepentant, a pervasive sense
>of general dishonor and disgrace with which even the opponents
>and critics of the war were tainted.
>
>Of course, an American victory would have been worse still.
>Victory is death.  They should be mourned, not celebrated.

Nonetheless there was dancing in the streets the night the end was 
announced.  Amarcord.*

Joanna S.

*Meaning "I remember" and also "bitter heart".

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