One Reason to Admire Jimmy Carter
January 21, 2018
On this day in 1977, President Carter pardoned Vietnam War “draft dodgers.” The heroes were the ones who refused to go to Vietnam, not the ones who did. Should we honor Vietnam Veterans? I answer that question here.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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