Karl Marlantes: Why I Chose To Go to Vietnam

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In the late 1960s Karl Marlantes had a decision to make. He could serve in a war that he saw as unjust, desert to Algeria or Sweden, or stay at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship as his high school friends fought and died in Vietnam. Marlantes decided to serve. But why?

[Photo Credit: George Wilkerson]