Vietnam Generation Volume 6 Number 1 Viet Nam Generation, Volume 6, Number Article 1 1-2 1-1994 Viet Nam Generation, Volume 6, Number 1-2 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/vietnamgeneration Part of the American Studies Commons Recommended Citation (1994) "Viet Nam Generation, Volume 6, Number 1-2," Vietnam Generation: Vol. 6 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/vietnamgeneration/vol6/iss1/1 This Complete Volume is brought to you for free and open access by La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vietnam Generation by an authorized editor of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Journal of Recent History and Contemporary Culture Volume 6, Numbers 1-2 C ontents ViET Nam G eneration Vo Lume 6, NuMbERS 1-2 IfMTROdlJCTiON .................................................... 2 You Asksd, "WHat W as FfAppENiNq ThEN?" In This Issue by PauIa FRiedMAN..................................... 82 GRAphic A rts WEpTRONiCS LookiNq foR WoodsTock, by ChRis B r u t o n ..........87 VWAR-L, SIXTIES-L ANd tMe SixTiES PROjECT S tate of ThE JournaI WhAT I've B een TkiNkiNq AbouT LATEly.... PoETRy by Rod Fa r m e r .................................... 90 Books: KaIi's Picks PoETRy by ViCTOR H. BAUsch.............................. 91 James W illiAM GibsoN, W a r r io r D r e a m s : PARAMiliTARy C uI tu re in P o s t -Viet n a m A m e r ic a PoETRy by R.S. C arIs o n ....................................92 WARd ChuRchill, IncHans A r e Us ? C uI tu re ANd GENOCidE IN NATIVE NORTh AMERICA FoRqivENESS, by To m Pe r r o t t a ..........................94 G ayIe G reen & CoppdiA KaIin, Eds., ThERE are STill NicE PsopU iN tIhe WORld, ChANqiNq Sub jeers: The MAkiNq of F e m in is t U t e r a r y C r it Ic is m by MARk DEVANEy........................................99 RANdy ShilTS, CoN ducr UNbECOMiNq: PoETRy by PauI AU e n ......................................105 GAys & LesbiANS iN tUe U.S. MiliTARy PoETRy by EIUot RichMAN................................108 A nnouncements, N o t ic es, & R e p o r t s ................... 9 PoETRy by Pete Le e ..........................................Ill 25 Y ears La t er : A SANiTized SixTiES, by EdwARd P. M o r q a n ....................................... 17 CAiTliN Jones, by RichARd WEliN........................ 112 jAcksoN S tate C oIIeqe: ThE Lo st EpisodE iN ThE Spoils of War, by BRiAN SkiNNER................. 116 ANTiwAR Pr o te st , b y WilliAM M. KiNq.............29 OREy ANd Twee, by ToNi La Ree B ennett............. 122 ThE iMpENdiNq CRisis of tMe 1960s: N atIonaI G oaIs ANd NATioNAl Pu rpo se, by JohN ANdREW ...50 PoETRy by ANThoNy DEGREqoRio......................124 Er o s on ThE N ew F ro n tier: ThE GiNzbuRQ PoETRy by RobERT FIa n a q a n .............................125 C ase ANd ThE LiMiTS of LibERAl To Ierance, by Louis K e r n ........................................... 42 PoETRy by ChRisTophER B u t t e r s .......................127 PoETRy by LAURiE W aqner BuyER........................ 61 ThE Last DAys of God on EartIh, by S ean CoNNolly.......................................155 PoETRy by G eorqe H s ld ...................................62 SpECiAl TRAiNiNq, by WilliAM Feetzer.................. 140 PoETRy by TiMOThy F. KENNEdy...........................65 Na pa Im NiqhT, by J.B. FIo q a n .......................... 146 PoETRy by Ja m e s Sco fiE ld ................................ 64 ThE WisEST Know NoThiNq, WhEN ThE TRUTh is FouNd: ThE HAMpdEN-SydNEy by STEphEN T. BANko, III............................. 149 CONfERENCE ON ThE ViET NAM WAR, by ThEodoRE M. LIe v e r m a n ........................... 65 C annon CiTy, by Norm an LanquIs t ................... 152 RAdicAl ObsERVATioNs: JohN A Junot's A ccount PoETRy by RichARd K. OIs o n ............................ 154 of ThE SixTiES, b y MiTchEll K. HaII ..................78 Viet Nam G eneration Poetry by TMeresa A. WilliAMS......................... 156 Introduction PoETRy by t . kilqoRE sp U kE ............................. 157 PoETRy by DAvid TANqEMAN..............................157 In This Issue Dan Duffy usually writes the "In This Issue” Section, but M y LifE as a M an iN A merica, by MiTch GRAbois......................................159 Dan has been in Ha Noi for the last three months. In a return to the role I played in the earlier days of Viet Nam Generation, I have been immersed in the solicitation and TAlkiNq of MichElANqElo, by S. FREdERic L is s .......160 selection of articles, editing and production of this issue. My hands-on involvement in editorial matters will con­ M eIt D o w n , by FREdERic CARdiN........................ 165 tinue into the foreseeable future, since Dan is involved in developing our Southeast Asia area studies publications PoETRy by Jeanne BRyNER............................... 169 and will be returning to Viet Nam to spend six months therein 1995. Joining me in a production and design role is our partner, Steve Gomes, who in addition to handling FlANd SiqNAls, by S cott GoETchius................... 169 the sorts of tasks that Business Managers undertake, has shown a flair for graphic design and bookmaking. PoETRy by TIhomas A. GRibblE..........................170 We had a rich collection of material from which to assemble the contents of this volume. Volume 6, Num­ PoETRy by DAvid L ERbEN................................170 bers 1-2, reflect our usual eclectic tastes and wide- ranging interests, as well as the interdisciplinary prin­ A n Interview wiTh JosEpb GRAy, ciples upon which Viet Nam Generation is founded. The by ToNy WilliAMS........................................ 171 issue opens with a History section—two articles on the dangers of allowing others to remember history and to pass it off as truth; two articles on specific historical TBe iMAqs of t Ihe MiliTARy OffiCER iN FUm s events which both foreshadowed and shaped the the CONCERNiNq t Be ViETNAM WAR, 1960s in the U.S. Edward P. Morgan gives us “25 Years by JoBn S. B A k y ........................................ 175 Later: A Sanitized Sixties," and a warning that those who do not remember the past are doomed to be misled by GENERATiNq X, by CyNThiA F u c h s...................... 180 commercially packaged historical summaries. In “Jack- son State College: The Lost Episode in Antiwar Protest," C uIture, HisTORy, ANd ThsiR D iscontents, sociologist and VG Contributing Editor William King by ToNy WilliAMS....................................... 185 briefly reminds us that the shootings at Jackson State have been almost forgotten while the Kent State murders PoETRy by DAvid ScoNyERS............................. 190 have become a cultural icon. King suggests that this elision is more than an accident. Historian John Andrew describes the report of the Presidential Commission on PoETRy by TiMOThy HodoR...............................191 National Goals issued in 1960 in ‘The Impending Crises of the 1960s: National Goals and National Purpose," and Rev iew : JoNAThAN ShAy, A ch illE S iN ViETNAM: argues that the report contributed to the creation of the CoM bAT Tr a u m a ANd rhE llNdoiNq of atmosphere which fostered progressive change in the c h a r a c t e r , next decade. And historian Louis Kern writes at length REviEWEd b y W.D. EBrBa r t .......................... 192 about liberalism and censorship in the early 1960s in “Eros on the New Frontier: The Ginzburg Case and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance." RevIe w : Philip K. Jaso n , The Vie t n a m W a r iN Poetry by Laurie Wagner Buyer, George Held, Timo­ U t e r a t u r e : A n ANNOTATEd BiblioqRAphy of thy F. Kennedy and James Scofield follows the historical CRiricisM , articles. The poems of these four authors remind us that REviEWEd b y DAvid J. D eRo s e .........................196 historical movements are comprised of individual mo­ ments—both personal and political. The poems segue W o m en ANd V eterans ANd DRAfT EvAdERS, into a short section of narrative, beginning with Theodore b y RENNy ChRiSTophER..................................197 M. Lieverman's careful description of the 1994 Hamp- den-Sydney College conference on the Viet Nam war. B ao DAi: ThE La st Em p e r o r , Mitchell K. Hall follows with a densely annotated presen­ by Cscil B. CuRREy.......................................199 tation of the letters of Ohio antiwar activist John A. Junot, “Radical Observations." Feminist and antiwar activist Paula Friedman continues the section with a AfTERWORd, by S teven G o m e s .......................... 207 ringing answer to the question, “What Was Happening Then?" Chris Bruton's “Looking for Woodstock” articu- 2 VolUME 6, INUMbERS 1-2 lates the process by which a cultural event becomes a The last third of the issue is devoted to criticism and cultural icon as two people who were not at the concert reviews. Tony Williams interviews Joseph Gray, the search for a patch of ground. director of the film Ambush. John S. Baky gives us “The More poetry—by Rod Farmer, Victor H. Bausch, and Image of the Military Officer in Films Concerning the Viet R.S. Carlson—this time focusing on the experiences of Nam War,” in which he describes, in painstaking detail soldiers and veterans. And, sandwiched between poets, the misrepresentations of American officers in popular two stories which have become favorites of mine: Tom culture. Cynthia Fuchs draws parallels between the Perrolla's “Forgiveness,” and Mark Devany's “There Are "generation” of the Sixties and "Generatlon-X" In her Still Nice People in the World.” Both tales reflect on the usual acerbic style. And Tony Williams tells us his process of misunderstanding and on human connections opinions of recent books on pop culture representations in a world where alienation and isolation are the norm.