Post by Joe McCarron on Feb 27, 2011 13:09:41 GMT -5
I can only remember one teacher really talking about the war in Vietnam, Mrs Adamski, history teacher. But as far as the students were concerned, it seems as if it never existed until I got home and watched the news. I have vivid memories of the war in general and the Tet offensive but for the life of me, (at least in high school) the Vietnam war could have been in another dimension.
By my senior year, I was concerned about getting drafted and going to Vietnam but never really discussed it with my friends or classmates. God Bless her but the only person I ever had long talks to about it, was my mom. Both her and I were against the war and as she was an RN, had a plan cooked up that would have made me medically ineligible for combat.
The summer I graduated, 1971, was the last year of the draft and my number was 68. I'll never forget where I was and whom I was with....(driving with this guy Paul Lucht). I thought I was doomed but no more than a few weeks later, Nixon suspended the draft and I did not have to go.
I am very anti-war but not to the extreme. I believe our invasion of Afghanistan was justified but we need to leave there, now. I believe our invasion of Iraq was immoral and done to enrich the US corporations. I'll lay down my life for my country but not for oil or someones profit margin.
Granted, Pulaski High School was at the time, still rather Polish and very conservative. I seem to recall no political activities there, whatsoever. I had a chemistry teacher, Terry Meiger, who was a pilot in Vietnam and he occasionally talked bout his exploits but nothing about politics.
Vietnam....never existed at Pulaski High School.
By my senior year, I was concerned about getting drafted and going to Vietnam but never really discussed it with my friends or classmates. God Bless her but the only person I ever had long talks to about it, was my mom. Both her and I were against the war and as she was an RN, had a plan cooked up that would have made me medically ineligible for combat.
The summer I graduated, 1971, was the last year of the draft and my number was 68. I'll never forget where I was and whom I was with....(driving with this guy Paul Lucht). I thought I was doomed but no more than a few weeks later, Nixon suspended the draft and I did not have to go.
I am very anti-war but not to the extreme. I believe our invasion of Afghanistan was justified but we need to leave there, now. I believe our invasion of Iraq was immoral and done to enrich the US corporations. I'll lay down my life for my country but not for oil or someones profit margin.
Granted, Pulaski High School was at the time, still rather Polish and very conservative. I seem to recall no political activities there, whatsoever. I had a chemistry teacher, Terry Meiger, who was a pilot in Vietnam and he occasionally talked bout his exploits but nothing about politics.
Vietnam....never existed at Pulaski High School.
