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A 5 page summation and analysis of Harris' book on the Vietnam War. David Harris was one of the most famous leaders of student protests against the draft during the Vietnam War. The perfect all-American boy, Harris was student body president at Stanford University, and before that, he was Fresno High's "Boy of the Year." Yet, when the Vietnam War started taking the lives of young Americans, Harris was in the forefront of those opposing the war. His book, Our War, is primarily a memoir. He mixes personal anecdotes with general observations about the US involvement in Southeast Asia. No additional sources cited.
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Stanford University, and before that, he was Fresno Highs "Boy of the Year." Yet, when the Vietnam War started taking the lives of young Americans, Harris was in the forefront
of those opposing the war. His book, Our War, is primarily a memoir. He mixes personal anecdotes with general observations about the US involvement in Southeast Asia. In
a rather disjointed way, skipping forward and backward in time, he relates his visits to Vietnam in 1975 and 1995. He reviews the partisan politics behind the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
of 1964, which is the legislation that gave President Lyndon Johnson a freehand in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in general. He discusses covert activity of the US that led to
kidnapping, torture and assassination under the infamous Phoenix Program. Harris is particularly bitter towards Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, and Richard Nixon for being arrogant and deceitful. Harris talks about the
cruelty of fragmentation bombs, as well as the US official sponsorship of the drug trade. He also discusses his twenty months in prison for draft invasion, being hounded by the
FBI, and meeting other famous subversives. For example, he was briefly married to Joan Baez, a famous folk singer who spoke out against the war in Vietnam. Harris reviews
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each of us has his or her own
version of who led us into that morass. My favorite candidate is John Wayne" (42). Harris readily admits that Wayne was just a movie star, but blames him for creating
the macho ethos with which young men felt that they had to measure up. "John Wayne was the man those of us who were eventually called to take out turn
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