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Senator Max Cleland Democrat of Georgia War takes its toll, and anybody who doesn't understand that hasn't been to war. Part of it is the pain and guilt. It's taken me 30 years or more to deal with the Vietnam War. I felt guilty coming back, and...
Barry Romo National Coordinator, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Everything is backwards. People shouldn't be looking at Kerrey as a victim but at the families of the Vietnamese who were killed. If Kerrey killed them by accident, and knew it, then he owed them some reparation. If he did...
So U.S. planners came up with a fudge: U.S. planes would fly surveillance missions but would carry "fly-along" officers from the local countries who would manage the authorization of any actual gunfire. The division of labor worked fine as a legal loophole, but it was an accident waiting to...
But his war ended after just three months, when that grenade hit his foot. He woke up in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, where doctors sawed off half his right leg. He still calls the hospital, not Vietnam, "the most important and defining period of my life." In that old-fashioned...
RESIGNED. SCOTT WADDLE, 41, skipper of the submarine Greeneville, which sank the Japanese trawler Ehime Maru, killing nine; from the U.S. Navy, with full rank and pension; in Honolulu. A court of inquiry ruled that Waddle had breached proper procedure in the hours preceding the accident, but officials decided against...