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Page 22 text:
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Galveston arrived at Subic Bay, Philippines on a blue-bright sunny morning, but clouds were building over the green mountains to the east. As Galveston nested herself next to the cruiser Canberra, soon to begin her homeward run, the band on Canberra ' s decks struck up California, Here We Come. When the turn-over conferences had been completed and Galveston breasted out to let Canberra pull away from Alava Wharf, the clouds which had rolled in to create a solid overcast let go a monsoonal rain, the first of many we would encounter in the Philippines. For many of us, Subic Bay was Our first glimpse of a foreign country. Some of the sights--like the gayly painted and mani- acally piloted jeepneys — were quaint and colorful. But others — like the professional beggar children in their outrigger canoes, were disturbing. 18
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Page 23 text:
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f f It is a brutal war June 23— As we prepared ourselves for our first patrol in the South China Sea, the American Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, addressed the American Foreign Service Association in Washington. His words bear repeating here: The struggle in Vietnam has continued since April and indeed has grown more severe. The harsh resistance of the Communists to any form of discussions or negotiations continues. The effort to destroy the freedom of Vietnam has been expanded. The trial by fire of the people of Vietnam goes on. Their own resistance has been courageous, but the need for American reso- lution and for American aid has increased. Now, as then, it is a brutal war— marked by terror and sneak attack, and by the killing of women and children in the night. From 1961 to the present date the South Vietnamese armed forces have lost some 25,000 dead and 51,000 wounded. In proportion to population, these South Vietnamese losses are 10 times as great as those suffered by Americans in the Korean War, and larger than our losses in World War II. Even more terrible than these military losses are the cruelties of assassination and kid- napping among civilian officials and ordinary citizens. In the last 18 months, for example, more than 2,000 local officials and citizens have been murdered. It is as if in our own country some 35,000 civic leaders or their families were to be killed at night by stealth and terror. Meanwhile, from the north, heavy infiltration has continued. Intelligence now shows that some 40,000 had come down before the end of 1964. Toward the end of that year- well before the beginning of our own air operations against North Vietnam—the infiltration of regular North Vietnamese army units was begun, and important elements of that army are now known to be in place in South Vietnam and Laos, where they have no right to be. And hence the airstrikes against military targets in North Vietnam. These actions made infiltration harder. They have increased the cost of aggression. Without them South Vietnam today would face still stronger forces from the north. In recent weeks, after two months of reduced activity, the enemy has sharply quickened the tempo of his military action in the South. Since early May, major Viet Cong units have re- turned to the battlefield, and already a series of sharp engagements has shown us that the fighting through the summer months may be hard. Since March we have deployed nine battalions of fighting men to South Vietnam. Six more are on their way. For as the President said in April, ' We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. . . We will do everything necessary. . .and we will do only what is. . .necessary. ' 19
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