By Christian G. Appy
Nobody can comprehend the full tragedy of the yank adventure in Vietnam with no analyzing this booklet. not anything so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the yank dedication as does the composition of our struggling with forces. the wealthy and the strong can have supported the warfare first and foremost, yet they contributed little of themselves. That accountability fell to the negative and the operating category of America.Senator George McGovern
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Half of all Negroes live in substandard housing and he has half the income of white. There is twice as much unemployment and infant mortality among Negroes. S. intervention, America in Vietnam, Guenter Lewy accused King of heightening racial tension by making false allegations about black casualties in Vietnam. S. population. 5 until well after King was assassinated. During the period King and others were articulating their criticisms of the war, the disproportions were quite significant. To attack the antiwar movement for failing to use postwar statistics is not only unfair, it is ahistorical.
The other nations received so much money in return for their military intervention that their forces were essentially mercenary. The Philippine government of Ferdinand Marcos, for example, received the equivalent of $26,000 for each of the 2,000 men it sent to Vietnam to carry out noncombat, civic action programs. -sponsored third countries. It deployed a force of 50,000 men. In return, the Korean government enjoyed substantial increases in aid, and its soldiers were paid roughly 20 times what they earned at home.
In the 1960s only about 5 percent of the American labor force was engaged in agriculture. In the NORC survey, more than twice as many, 12 percent, came from farm families. Though the survey does not reveal the economic standing of this group, we should avoid an American tendency to picture all farmers as independent proprietors. At the time of the survey about two-thirds of the workers engaged in agricultural labor were wage earn- Page 24 ers (farm laborers or migrant farmworkers) with family incomes less than $1,000 per year.