Taken from May Day 1971 by Jack Mallory (reviewer):
Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America’s Biggest Mass Arrest
by Lawrence Roberts
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
"The peace movement has many martyrs but few heroes, and the veterans, who held the Mall for four nights against a stony-hearted government, had given it a victory that already has become a legend."
I saw a very small part of the Vietnam War, restricted to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment area of operations in Binh Long and Tay Ninh provinces in 1969 and 70. My perspective was even more restricted by my particular job as a captain running MEDCAPs and doing leaflet and loudspeaker missions directed at North Vietnamese Army troops.
From the point of view of any individual, where we were and what we did were almost incomprehensible parts of the whole. We didn't know much about what we were doing and why, especially in any larger sense.... Read More
