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PAGE 6 THE GOLD BUG DECEMBER 8, 1967 MESS¥\.GE:NHAT HANH "I am still here alive, able to smile quietly, The sw "Life has left her footprints on my forehead brought forth by the tree of sufferings! But I have become a child again this morning Carrying the dead corpse of my brother, I go across The smile, seen through -leaves and flowers, is back, to smooth field in the darkne ss away the wrinkles Earth will keep thee tight within her arms, dear one, As the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a so that tomorrow 'thou wilt be reincarnated in flowers cycle of birth and death begins, Those flowers smiling quietly in this morning field. This moment, you weep no more, dear one-we have g "I walk on thorns, but firmly, as among flowers too deep a night! I keep my he ad high R.imes bloom among the sounds of bombs and mortars "This morning, yes, this morning, I kneel down on th The tears I shed yesterday have become rain when I feel your presence I feel calm hearing its sound on the thatched roof o flowers which carry the smile of ineffability Childhood ( 0 my birthland!) is calling me The message and the rain melts my despair. The message of love and sacrifice .has indeed come to us." "This is the fire that will help the generations they use it in a sacred -manner. But if they do well, the fire will ha power to do them gr Asked to write about the destructive. rather th side of war. I fully intended to do so. But the C softened my anti-war resolve to a point that I am Sider the beneficial and positive results of the The War helps American business and. there ty. Take Dow Chemical, the makers of napalm. Dow has to cut back on napalm considerably. A f in from places like South Africa and from groups but, for the most· part, the napalm business is slac Dow chemists scurry around, their faces beaming they fill the Pentagon's standing order. More war, more napalm equals more jobs and a happy Christ Because of the War the country has an unpara go ahead in the civil rights movement. The Pentago largest equal opportunity employer, goes out of i sure that Negroes get plenty of jobs in Vietnam. S ed whites have comp lained that white boys have b stay home and kill a few years in college rather than to go to war, Most fair-minded Americans, however government's showing a little prejudice in favor these -Americans see the logic in broadening the hasten integration. Consider. finally, the practice the War provi metre. Those fighting in Vietnam, especially tho the enemy dead have a chance to work both with w and fractions. Here at home, we begin .ro appreciate of the government's new math, as we try to fatho prediction of how long the War will last, how man shot down, how many hamh rs have been pacified, 16s have mal-functioned, and so forth. With these benefits so obvious, may everyone be war-like. R.C. Phi