<P> didn't change my conclusions about the war being a terrible mistake, but it struck me that opponents to the war, including myself, really did not take into account the fact that there were an awful lot of South Vietnamese who desperately wanted to hang on to what they called freedom . Coming face to face with those sentiments expressed by people who did the laundry and ran the restaurants and worked in the fields was something I was naively unprepared for . </P> <P> Gore was "dispirited" after his return from Vietnam . NashvillePost.com noted that, "his father's defeat made service in a conflict he deeply opposed even more abhorrent to Gore . His experiences in the war zone don't seem to have been deeply traumatic in themselves; although the engineers were sometimes fired upon, Gore has said he didn't see full - scale combat . Still, he felt that his participation in the war was wrong ." </P> <P> Although his parents wanted him to go to law school, Gore first attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School (1971--72) on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for people planning secular careers . He later said he went there in order to explore "spiritual issues", and that "he had hoped to make sense of the social injustices that seemed to challenge his religious beliefs ." </P> <P> In 1971, Gore also began to work the night shift for The Tennessean as an investigative reporter . His investigations of corruption among members of Nashville's Metro Council resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two councilmen for separate offenses . </P>

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