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This op-ed piece was suggested to me by the Progressive Media Project which serves the valuable purpose of sending out politically unorthodox op-ed pieces to newspapers all over the country. It appeared in half a dozen newspapers around the country, including the Atlanta Constitution. I thought it important to remind people of that immoral war, since there have been strenuous efforts by those in high places to make war palatable once again to the American public. President Bush, as he sent troops into the Middle East, proclaimed that the "Vietnam syndrome" (by which he meant the revulsion against war caused by the Vietnam experience, had been "buried in the sands of the Arabian peninsula. " Let us hope not.
It was thirty years ago (January 30, 1968) that Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet teaching at Cornell, and I, once an Air Force bombardier and now a historian teaching at Boston University, traveled (illegally) to Hanoi. Our mission was to pick up the first three captured American pilots to be released by the North Vietnam government and bring them home.