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Five hundred thousand of them
in Vietnam.
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And this war
became a war of genocide.
:27:10
The people of North Vietnam
and South Vietnam...
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fight only for freedom,
independence and national unity.
:27:20
This war is a war against
the American imperialists.
:27:26
This is our war for independence.
:27:29
-[Gunshot]
-****["Yankee Doodle"]
:27:40
What we are trying to put across this
afternoon is to get you to realize...
:27:44
that these weren't mythical,
hazy people from the past.
:27:47
These were very real people.
:27:50
When they rose up against
the most powerful army in the world,
:27:54
they were actually putting
everything on the line that they had:
:27:57
their homes, their wealth,
their past and their future.
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[Man On P.A.] "We hold these truths
to be self-evident.
:28:03
That all men are created equal.
:28:06
That they are endowed by their creator
with certain unalienable rights.
:28:10
That among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. "
:28:16
And when you judge the Revolution
and the problems and the success we had,
:28:18
it was a two-way street.
:28:20
A good many citizens
at the time of the Revolution...
:28:24
actually stayed
and fought with the British.
:28:26
It was close to being a civil war
in many areas.
:28:28
You actually split
many-many families.
:28:31
Thomas Jefferson said,
"The tree of revolution is--''
:28:34
or "The tree of liberty is...
:28:36
watered by the blood of revolution
every generation.''
:28:40
And I think that's a little exaggerated,
but there's some truth to that.
:28:44
[Man On P.A.] The war had come
to Westchester County,
:28:47
but so too had independence
and a new responsibility.
:28:51
Men are getting killed, men are killing.
That's the parallel.
:28:54
As far as politics, are you kidding?
:28:57
Oriental politics?
Don't put me on, man.