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A great responsibility
Deep in our being
To care for the weaklings
This world needs a healing

Fighting for "equality"
With unabashed verocity

Drowning in hypocrisy
Doubting our democracy
Everybody's thoughts become impatient to the cause

Anger boiling up in me
Tearing at my sanity
Aimed towards authority
Our country wants no one to see

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"War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead" (O'Brien 76).

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War has the regrettable power to take a human and strip them bare of any and all humanity. During the Vietnam War we lost many more hearts than we did lives. The men entered the war wholesome, they had families, and love, and hope in their souls. But the war transformed them into empty beings. They had nothing but anger and vengeance on their minds. The men who entered My Lai and murdered and raped women and children never would have done that if it were not for Vietnam. The war took innocent men and created monsters.

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During the Vietnam War, the American government created a web of lies that was nearly impossible to detangle. Body counts were under exaggerated and success stories were fabricated to attract support that the war in no way deserved. All the government secrets were exposed to the American people in a series of New York Times publications called the "Pentagon Papers." I believe this is a critical event because it showed the public how corrupt their government was and the papers harnessed the power to change their minds and deteriorate public support.

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"...the American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law...The only certainty that summer was moral confusion" (O'Brien 38).

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John Kerry, testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971.

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John Kerry, testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971.

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"...someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.'"

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Martin Luther King's Speech "Beyond Vietnam," delivered April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City.

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Martin Luther King's Speech "Beyond Vietnam," delivered April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City.

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"The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism."

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"But it all tumbled down when we ambushed the town,
In the night how the metal was flying.
We blew it to hell. Really did our job well,
But just women and kids did the dying."

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"And marches alone can't bring integration,
When human respect is disintegratin',
This whole crazy world is just too frustrating',"