I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.