To the editors:
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I had to forget about the incident because I wound up in a number of U.S. Naval hospitals in the Pacific and sort of forget about things. I remembered later and I remember it now.
I mention all this because obviously Mr. Jonathan Rosenbaum, your movie reviewer (excuse me: film critic), seems to think Show Trials are in order [“Micromorality,” September 1].
I did all this because where I grew up there were some serious cement-faced Marxist-Leninists and they came right out and told me that if they ever came to power they would execute me for no other reason than the fact that I happened to be an american. I understand perfectly that our involvement in Indochina is a long and very sordid story but I also refuse to question my original motives. These were as follows: fight as hard as you can to prevent a sea of angry Marxists from flowing down into Indochina and establishing smug regimes bent on nothing less than colossal murder. Are you still with me, Mr. Rosenbaum?
