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Being a new draftee in the US Army basic training at the time, I managed to miss this issue. Snoopy the Goon at SimplyJews says it was an icon of his boyhood. Being rather older, and no more certain of the outcome than most people at the time, I was contemplating deserting to Israel. Just as well I did not, as I would only have been jailed and returned, my Hebrew being beneath contempt, and Israel-American relations not being worth endangering for the sake of one overly-enthusiastic deserter. Now I see I also would have been ignorant of the AK-47–being trained only on M-14s in those days–a weapon I would not encounter up close until 1969 in Vietnam. Forty years later, we are seeing a new conspiracy theory about the war. But however it began, and however it has turned out, the recapture of Jerusalem was worth it.

UPDATE Good look at those days of yore. And more here.