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Article: Dan Quayle and the Vietnam Question; A Conflicting Legacy For the Generation That Fought the War
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- The Washington Post
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- August 19, 1988
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Everyone in America watched the Vietnam generation come of
age-that massive bulge of 26 million men and 27 million women whose
adolescence was played out in endless detail on the nightly news.
They were captured in freeze frames of yesteryear-drug-gutted "flower
children" seeking nirvana in Haight-Ashbury flophouses, revelers
stoned and mud-soaked at Woodstock, protesters bleeding from the
nightsticks in Chicago 20 years ago.
And television brought the war home to America-capturing in
Vietnam's fields of fire bleeding and dying soldiers as baby-faced as
those at campus barricades, sometimes as stoned as the mob at
Woodstock, as vulnerable as any adolescents.
Now it's being replayed ...