War -- Republicans in 1960s Counterculture: The Age of Entitlement: America Since the 60s cont. ch4
Aug 14, 2026 · 53 min · 17 segments
!The Republican Professor The post…
Aug 14, 2026 · 53 min · 17 segments
!The Republican Professor The post…
Lucas J. MatherHost
From the four-day clash at Yatrang in 1965, which began when a battalion of the 7th Cavalry was dropped by helicopter into an ambush in a rainforest, to the infernal multi-week siege of Khe Sanh in the wake of the Tet Offensive in 1968, matches anything in the annals of American combat.
That heroism stuck in the popular imagination less than did the fraggings, the potential maimings or killings of officers and other incidents of undiscipline.
Soldiers who had been told they were defending the freedom of the Vietnamese people arrived in country expecting to be loved and supported.
One infantry lieutenant who had interviewed villagers day after day for a year recalled, I never once heard a Vietnamese say, don't go down that trail, there's a mine.
But it dented the patriotism of the younger generation much less and much more selectively and slowly than later accounts would lead one to think.
The top-selling single of 1966, according to Billboard magazine, was neither You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes, which came in at number 8, nor The Trog's Wild Thing, number 24, nor The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, number 33.
nor anything by Simon and Garfunkel, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, or Bob Dylan.
of stuff yeah let's keep going of course if you never knew in the first place how could you be reminded When in November of that year, Robert McNamara made a visit to Harvard and found his car surrounded by 100 protesting students for a democratic society, SDS members, one dean wrote to convey our deeply felt apology for the discourteous and unruly confrontation forced upon you yesterday by members of the Harvard College community.
A petition of apology quickly circulated among Harvard undergrads, too, and within 48 hours, more than half of them, 2,700, had signed it.
In late 1968, after the Tet Offensive and the riots at Chicago's Democratic Convention, the war was opposed by a majority of those over 50, over 50 but supported by those younger see these are the kinda details that Chris Caldwell provides That makes him one of my favorite writers.
But the leadership class that emerged out of the late 1960s was not a sociological cross-section of the generation the way the leadership class that came out of World War II had been.
It was highly atypical, and that was a contingency that would warp American society and politics in the half century that followed.
From the four-day clash at Yatrang in 1965, which began when a battalion of the 7th Cavalry was dropped by helicopter into an ambush in a rainforest, to the infernal multi-week siege of Khe Sanh in the wake of the Tet Offensive in 1968, matches anything in the annals of American combat.
That heroism stuck in the popular imagination less than did the fraggings, the potential maimings or killings of officers and other incidents of undiscipline.
Soldiers who had been told they were defending the freedom of the Vietnamese people arrived in country expecting to be loved and supported.
One infantry lieutenant who had interviewed villagers day after day for a year recalled, I never once heard a Vietnamese say, don't go down that trail, there's a mine.
But it dented the patriotism of the younger generation much less and much more selectively and slowly than later accounts would lead one to think.
The top-selling single of 1966, according to Billboard magazine, was neither You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes, which came in at number 8, nor The Trog's Wild Thing, number 24, nor The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, number 33.
nor anything by Simon and Garfunkel, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, or Bob Dylan.
of stuff yeah let's keep going of course if you never knew in the first place how could you be reminded When in November of that year, Robert McNamara made a visit to Harvard and found his car surrounded by 100 protesting students for a democratic society, SDS members, one dean wrote to convey our deeply felt apology for the discourteous and unruly confrontation forced upon you yesterday by members of the Harvard College community.
A petition of apology quickly circulated among Harvard undergrads, too, and within 48 hours, more than half of them, 2,700, had signed it.
In late 1968, after the Tet Offensive and the riots at Chicago's Democratic Convention, the war was opposed by a majority of those over 50, over 50 but supported by those younger see these are the kinda details that Chris Caldwell provides That makes him one of my favorite writers.
But the leadership class that emerged out of the late 1960s was not a sociological cross-section of the generation the way the leadership class that came out of World War II had been.
It was highly atypical, and that was a contingency that would warp American society and politics in the half century that followed.
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