http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97trw1rrls4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Tre
Excerpt:
Vietnam War
One of the most famous quotes of the Vietnam War was a statement attributed to an unnamed U.S. officer by AP correspondent Peter Arnett. Writing about the provincial capital, Bến Tre, on February 7, 1968, Arnett said: "'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,' a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong."[1] The quote was distorted in subsequent publications, eventually becoming the more familiar, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."[2] The accuracy of the original quote, and its source, have often been called into question.[3] Arnett never revealed his source, except to say that it was one of four officers he interviewed that day. US Army Major Phil Cannella, the senior officer present at Bến Tre, suggested that the quote might have been a distortion of something he said to Arnett.[2] The New Republic at the time attributed the quote to US Air Force Major Chester L. Brown.[4] In Walter Cronkite's 1971 book, Eye on the World, Arnett reasserted that the quote was something "one American major said to me in a moment of revelation."[5] However, one American veteran of the campaign, Captain Michael Miller, has written that he heard the comment being made by one Major Booris in a press briefing.[6]
http://www.nhe.net/BenTreVietnam/
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Anyway, the living room of the house was packed, mostly with civilians. The purpose of the briefing was to explain the battle of Ben Tre. Such briefings are usually conducted by the S-3, in this case, Major Booris. He was a heavy-set fellow.
He was also not my favorite officer. This was because he was the guy who told the infantry on guard to open fire on us the morning when we were walking back to Rach Kein across the rice paddies. This was when we had chased the VC who had ambushed the infantry Road Runners that one infamous and well-remembered morning (but that is another story). Fortunately for us, the infantry sergeant (an E-5) on duty had ignored the major’s orders. I’ll never forget his grin as he told me that he had saved our bacon by ignoring the S-3’s orders. He could clearly see that we were friendlies, so he withheld his fire.
http://realityzone-realityzone.blogspot.com/2010/08/about-famous-quote-of-vietnamese-1968.html
Excerpt:
ideacreamanuela ideacreamanuela (CC-BY)
"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"- Morpheus
http://realityzone-realityzone.blogspot.com/2010/08/about-famous-quote-of-vietnamese-1968.html
Excerpt:
Bob Dylan - - Changing of the Guard ?
ideacreamanuela ideacreamanuela (CC-BY)
"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?" Masters Of War
Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks. You that never done nothin' But build to destroy You play with my world Like it's your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly. Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see through your eyes And I see through your brain Like I see through the water That runs down my drain. You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you set back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion' As young people's blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud. You've thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world For threatening my baby Unborn and unnamed You ain't worth the blood That runs in your veins. How much do I know To talk out of turn You might say that I'm young You might say I'm unlearned But there's one thing I know Though I'm younger than you That even Jesus would never Forgive what you do. Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul. And I hope that you die And your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead.------- Bob Dylan 1963
Masters of War Boy Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRobFQchS0
Blowing in the Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddEbbdSSGg&feature=related
Changing The Guards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4XeUO5lNaA&feature=related
Masters of War Boy Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRobFQchS0
Blowing in the Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddEbbdSSGg&feature=related
Changing The Guards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4XeUO5lNaA&feature=related
Sixteen years,
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves.
Desperate men, desperate women divided,
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.
Fortune calls.
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
The cold-blooded moon.
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
They shaved her head.
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
I stumbled to my feet.
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taken.
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
Gentleman, he said,
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
With God on Our Side Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raI25N-OoMQ&feature=related
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/njolstad/
Excerpt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Soviet_Union
Excerpt:
Nguyen Thi Dinh was an example of a woman who had fought most of her adult life against foreign forces in her country. She was a member of the Vietminh fighting against the French and was imprisoned in the 1940s but on her release continued to fight and led a revolt in 1945 in Ben Tre and also in 1960 against Diems government. In the mid 1960s, she became a deputy commander of the Viet Cong, the highest ranking combat position held by a woman during the war.[250]
Nguyen Thi Duc Hoan, who would later go on to be an actress-director, also joined the fight at a young age and would later become a guerrilla fighter against the Americans, at the time her own daughter was training in the militia.[251]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Thi_Dinh
Excerpt:
Together with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, she is one of the two most prominent female Vietnamese communist leaders. She was awarded Lenin Peace Prize for the year 1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Peace_Prize
Excerpt:
Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Lenin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. The prize was mainly awarded to prominent Communists and supporters of the Soviet Union who were not Soviet citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
Excerpts:
1) Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994)[1] was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century.[2][3][4] Pauling was among the first scientists to work in the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology.
Pauling is one of only four individuals to have won more than one Nobel Prize.
2) Pauling was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize by the USSR in 1970
http://www.cracked.com/article_19223_6-civil-war-myths-everyone-believes-that-are-total-b.s..html
Excerpt:
Dirty Laundry Bittersweet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJ0xGK8dC4
Unwell matchbox20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziA88-n02k
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves.
Desperate men, desperate women divided,
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.
Fortune calls.
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
The cold-blooded moon.
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
They shaved her head.
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
I stumbled to my feet.
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taken.
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
Gentleman, he said,
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
With God on Our Side Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raI25N-OoMQ&feature=related
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/njolstad/
Excerpt:
The Nobel Peace Prize: Revelations from the Soviet Past
by Olav Njølstad
Research Director, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 1999 -
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This suspicion was strengthened by events in the following year, helping convince the Soviet leadership that the Nobel Peace Prize was reserved for Westerners only or, at least, for people sympathetic to the Western powers.
Research Director, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 1999 -
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This suspicion was strengthened by events in the following year, helping convince the Soviet leadership that the Nobel Peace Prize was reserved for Westerners only or, at least, for people sympathetic to the Western powers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Soviet_Union
Excerpt:
Vietnamese women
Unlike the American women who went to Vietnam, Vietnamese women fought in the combat zone as well as provided manual labor to keep the Ho Chi Minh Trail open; they also worked in the rice fields to provide food for their families and the war effort. Women were enlisted in both the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the VietCong guerrilla force in South Vietnam.Nguyen Thi Dinh was an example of a woman who had fought most of her adult life against foreign forces in her country. She was a member of the Vietminh fighting against the French and was imprisoned in the 1940s but on her release continued to fight and led a revolt in 1945 in Ben Tre and also in 1960 against Diems government. In the mid 1960s, she became a deputy commander of the Viet Cong, the highest ranking combat position held by a woman during the war.[250]
Nguyen Thi Duc Hoan, who would later go on to be an actress-director, also joined the fight at a young age and would later become a guerrilla fighter against the Americans, at the time her own daughter was training in the militia.[251]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Thi_Dinh
Excerpt:
Together with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, she is one of the two most prominent female Vietnamese communist leaders. She was awarded Lenin Peace Prize for the year 1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Peace_Prize
Excerpt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
Excerpts:
1) Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994)[1] was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century.[2][3][4] Pauling was among the first scientists to work in the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology.
Pauling is one of only four individuals to have won more than one Nobel Prize.
2) Pauling was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize by the USSR in 1970
http://www.cracked.com/article_19223_6-civil-war-myths-everyone-believes-that-are-total-b.s..html
Excerpt:
Dirty Laundry Bittersweet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJ0xGK8dC4
Unwell matchbox20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziA88-n02k
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