Mr. Speaker. behind the glaring headlines. the Presidential pronouncements and the Pentagon press releases. there is a human side to the Vietnam war. It is to be seen in the terrorstricken expression of a refugee. in the face of a child horribly scarred by napalm. or in a million graves. After a decade of merciless slaughter in Indochina I fear we have. as a nation. become immunized against feelings of horror at what is going on in Southeast Asia. At the very least it is all to easy to close our eyes to the daily slaughter and suffering. It was gratifying. therefore. though discomforting. that CBS news last Friday night focused its cameras on the human impact of the fighting just south of the DMZ. As is all too characteristic of the entire Indochina war. the worst victims of the fighting were civilians. A truck carrying dozens of women and children refugees heading south to the relative safety of Hue. hit a land mine and was destroyed. In the aftermath. the mangled bodies of women and children littered the side of the highway as far as the cameras eye could see. On- another television news report. the American people were informed of the case of a small Vietnamese boy who needed corrective facial surgery.
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