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Chapter Summary: The Vietnam War
a. The first verse likened the soldiers of the opposing sides. Although they fought in support of two different poles, that did not make them any different in nature; they were still ordinary human beings who did not wish to take part in the fighting. Yet, though they were not the ones who chose to enter into a war, they were the ones giving up their lives, while their leaders called out the orders comfortably from the

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