P's Fathers and Vietnam

[Doug Millison]

Fact remains, as Pynchon was writing it, fathers and other old men in the
U.S. were sending their own sons and other young men off to die in Vietnam.
If you can't find that in GR, well I guess you can't.

Leaving Vietnam aside, and speaking of textual support, I'm curious to know
what you would point to in GR to support this rather suprising assertion:

>But the fathers in GR don't and can't kill the sons or send them off to
>war to die for
>multinational corporations.

That is, in fact precisely what the father, and mothers, in GR have been
doing, on both sides of the conflict; they have been sending their sons
into battle to die ("Nalline, the reflection from her Gold Star brightening
her chins like a buttercup, smirks by the window and won't answer. . . . "
GR 360) while multinational corporations reap profits by supplying both
sides. This is what happens in every war, and certainly in the War that
never ends which seems to be at least one of Pynchon's subjects in GR.