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Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. is saying that the Vietnam War caused serious harm to the social programs and reforms aimed at improving American society, known as the Great Society.

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