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Ne re er co oree com owe + * é “= es ane the momentum of our pover. The men who make decisions for us are prisoners of their past mistakes and instead of admitting it they use more of the sane -power that has brought us to our present woeful situation and they increase the sacrifice of Americens and Vietnemese, Is there any end to the price that we will ask the people of South Vietnam to pay as we use otr enormous power to force our will, upon them with fire and sword in the name of an unrepresentative government in Saigon?" Dr. John C. Bennett, President, Union . : Theological Seminary, New York "When I see our country today intervening in what is basically a civil war, destroying hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese children with nzp4in, leaving broken bodies in countless fields end sending some half-men, mutilated,mentally and physically; when I see the recalcitrant unwillingness of our government to creete the atmosphere for a negotiated settlement of this awful conflict by halting bombings in the north and aerceing to talk with the Vietcong. and all this in the name of pursuing the goal of pezce- 1 tremble for our world.... It is time for all people of conscience to call upon Amcrica to return to her true home of brotherhocd and peaceful pursuits, We cannot remain silent as _ our nation engages in one of history's most crue} and senseless wars." Reverend Martin Luther King ®As the dsetruction and the error intensify, so does the hatred of village for the Americans, leaving the American soldier, who believed he had come to help, caught In a quicksand of hatred and frustration, It is a hard fact for Americans to face, but it is @ fact that the more Vietnanese their troops succeed in killing, and che larger the force they introduce into Vietnam, the more surely they build the very thing they are trying to destroy, The war has destroyed not-only human lives but 211 human values as well. It undermines all government structures and systems of Society, destroys the very foundations of democracy, freedom, and all human systems | of values, Its shame is not just the shame of the Vietnamese, but of the whole world. The whole family of mankind will share the guilt if they do not help to stop this war. wet. So, oy ene -.-... Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist and . = author of Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire: A Buddhist Proposal for Peace,