Of Views, Aims, and Dogmas: A Letter to my Son

Of Views, Aims, and Dogmas: A Letter to my Son

Dear Son,

Our discussion of the “New Left” started with a rather small event related to the wretched war in Vietnam. Two GIs, captured by the Vietcong, were being released in tribute to the “American peace movement.” At a press conference staged by the Communists in Cambodia, with the GIs still in the hands of their captors, the prisoners were quoted as saying that they would return to the U.S. to fight for peace.

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