First our comrades. They come from many places. Some were good Jews fighting the baddy Arabs, some were baddy Jews fighting the goody Arabs, some were good protestants fighting the baddy catholics, some were baddy protestants fighting the goody catholics, some were goody or baddy, Viet Cong, black or white, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Nicholas Emmett
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The statement “First our comrades,” which appears in this quote, embodies the optimism of the 1960s, when many people believed that the world could be made just by uniting across racial, religious or political boundaries. The Vietnam War would be fought between “goody” Americans and “baddy” Vietnamese. The goody Americans would fight the baddy Vietnamese because they were different races. The baddy Americans were fighting the goody Vietnamese because they were different religions.

The baddy Viet Cong were fighting the goody soldiers because they were different politically (e.g., communist versus anti-communist). However, combatting evil is not easy. As time passed, these same goody Americans became disillusioned with the war and sought to distance themselves from their wartime counterparts.

This quote captures that feeling perfectly

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