P's Fathers and Vietnam

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Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> 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.

You can't find it. If you can,  present the textual support. 

> 
> 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. . . . "

Nalline is Slothrop's Mother not his father. His Father sells him to
Uncle Lyle & Co. 
Big difference.  



> 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.

Yes, a rather simple and obvious point.