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“Our hearts and our hopes are turned to peace as we assemble here in the East Room this morning,” said President Johnson on the morning of November 19,1968. “All our efforts are being bent in its pursuit. But in this company we hear again, in our minds, the sound of distant battles.” President Johnson was addressing these words to those gathered for the Medal of Honor ceremony in honor of five heroes of the undeclared war in Vietnam. One of those heroes was a young African-American man from Detroit, Sgt. Dwight Johnson. Dwight, or “Skip” to his family and friends, had always been a good kid, an Explorer Scout, and an altar boy, who could only recall losing control of his temper once in his life, when his little brother was being beaten by older boys. But in Vietnam, when the men whose lives he had shared for eleven months were burned to death before his eyes, he suddenly became a savage soldier, killing five to twenty enemy soldiers in the space of half an hour. At one point, he came face to face with a Vietnamese soldier who squeezed the trigger on his weapon aimed point blank at Skip. The gun misfired, and Skip killed him. According to the psychiatrist who saw him several years later, it was this soldier’s face that continued to haunt him.
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Bloom, S.L. (2000). Our Hearts and Our Hopes Are Turned to Peace. In: Shalev, A.Y., Yehuda, R., McFarlane, A.C. (eds) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4177-6_3
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