our "foot-soldiers"

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Dan Jizzenberry wrote:

> World War Two (perhaps Korea) was probably the last war in which you could
> find a substantial middle-class presence among the average foot soldier (the
> officer corps is a different story altogether). This has been the case for
> some time now.

This is the old Lefy propaganda again. You u have the facts reversed
here. 


>>"The Vietnam  Syndrome has not left us, folks." 

Well if we are going to have a syndrome we should at least diagnose it
properly. 

An interesting article here on Labor (a major Pynchon theme) and the
Left. 
 


http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Reviews/Smetak_US_Labor_01.html

In the 1960s, a significant number of American Leftists gave up on the
revolutionary potential of working class people.

Pynchon notes this in Slow Learner.