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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
Proclaim to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
Box 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
March 29, 1971
Dear Co-Worker in the
MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON EARTH!
Over our AP news teletype comes this illuminating story:
Dark-haired Jackie Navarra, age 22, from Albion, N.Y., is one of
a score of Army nurses at the 18th Surgical Hospital at Quang Tri,
Vietnam.
"Yesterday," she said, "we had quite a few mine accidents.
It's really depressing, because of the amputations." One GI had
just died from an operation amputating both legs and an arm.
"If I knew," she said, "what we are fighting for -- if the
enemy did something to our country -- I could see it. I DON'T
KNOW WHY WE'RE HERE! So many GIs ask WHY. I can't answer! I
came because I knew they needed medical help here."
I asked an audience of about 1200 people, here in Pasadena,
how many had heard by radio or television, or read, any EXPLANATION
from any one of the last four Presidents, or any top official in
any of the last four Administrations at Washington, of W H Y the
United States is in the war in South Vietnam -- any reason W H Y
54,000 of our boys have been killed (44,500 battle deaths), in a
war that has cost the U.S. more than 125 BILLION dollars.
I looked carefully over that audience to estimate the number
that would hold up their hands. And I looked and looked -- but
could NOT see a single hand!
W H Y has no Administration in Washington, during the
Administrations of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and
Nixon, made the American people UNDERSTAND?
DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND! I do not mean to say there is no
reason. THERE IS -- and four Presidents, two Democrats and two
Republicans, have believed the war was so necessary they have kept
us in it. But, aside from statements that we must fulfill our
commitments to our allies -- leading many to believe there is NO
REASON further than doing a friendly service to some far away race
of people we know little about, it seems the people know ONLY the
Communist propaganda.