Fraternity-Testvériség, 1966 (44. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1966-12-01 / 12. szám
10 FRATERNITY WORDS OF LBJ In November 1966, on his Asian and Pacific tour, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a number of important addresses and statements regarding the war in Vietnam, why the United States is fighting there and the goals we seek. Notable among these were his remarks in Manila, immediately following his trip to Vietnam. He said in part: “The great struggle in Vietnam becomes very real when you stand among men who have tasted its agony and experienced its horror. No Commander-in-Chief could meet face to face with these soldiers without asking himself: What is it they are doing here? What does it mean — the sacrifice and valor of the very young and the very best? “As I passed among their ranks, I thought of all the battlefields in this century where Americans whom we love have fought — Belleau Wood and the Argonne, the Solomons and Bastogne, the Pusan Perimeter and the 38th parallel in Korea. They fought — and tens of thousands of them died — for the same cause that brought the men I saw at Cam Ranh Bay to a place called South Vietnam. “They are there to keep aggression from succeeding. “They are there to stop one nation from taking over another nation by force. “They are there to help people who do not want to have an ideology pushed down their throats and imposed upon them. “They are there because somewhere, and at some place, the free nations of the world must say again to the militant disciples of Asian communism: This far and no further . . . The time is now, and the place is Vietnam. "Those men have pledged their lives ... I pledged that we will not fail them!"
