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HAL MUSKAT, U.S. ARMY: Many of us were very convinced Nixon had to go to an air war because he couldn't trust us on the ground.
And for good reason: we were shooting his officers and refusing direct orders to go into combat where we could.
And he had to go to an air war where there is no relationship, it's totally impersonal, you know. the pilots fly from Guam 1,000 miles away.
They drop several tons, how many tons of bombs, and they fly back again, they don't see the damage.
There is no relationship to what they do, their job, to people's lives.
TERRY IVERSON, U.S. AIR FORCE SECURITY SERVICE: I still wanted to fly.
I was given the impression that the war was wrong, I was going to be part of it, I wasn't going to be carrying a gun, I wasn't going to be physically shooting these people ... |
