One year ago the idea of our nation fighting a war was a pretty novel thing to the average college-age American. The summertime statement of President Johnson making our involvement in Southeast Asia of truly wartime proportions was still quite fresh on our minds. Maybe we had some hazy memories of events in Korea in our childhood and of course we had read and heard of the World wars all of our lives, but the thought of Americans dying in battle now seemed new and most significant.
But a year has passed. Today most of us read the number of battle casualties
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