A Moment of Subdued Thanksgiving

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Senator John Mccain In A Hanoi Hospital During The Vietnam War.

AT last, a truce. At last, after a season of false moves and false dawns, the papers were signed. At last, after years of death and destruction, the war that four U.S. Presidents had considered a necessary act of resistance against international Communism was ending in an ambiguous stalemate. For the U.S., at least, it was over. In Viet Nam, fighting may well resume—or never entirely stop. Yet for the moment, those on all sides who had once sought victory now felt an exhausted sense...

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