Word: air-raid
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...arrived at a camp near the front, air-raid sirens suddenly wailed, and troops scrambled to the alert, grabbing for helmets and ducking for cover. The camp had been strafed by MIGS early in the fighting. Nearby elements were already being hit by Egyptian artillery. The first thing we were told was, "There is a bunker not far from here if the bombing starts." At an observation bunker, a young lieutenant with curly hair squinted anxiously at the sky and chattered into his field telephone...
...year-old author-activist has proved herself a prophet of causes that others will eventually join. A redoubtable spokeswoman for pacifism and social reform, she earned an almost annual trip to New York City jails during the '50s for her refusal to participate in compulsory air-raid drills. This time she was arrested, with more than 2,100 Mexican-Americans and members of the Catholic clergy, for demonstrating on the picket lines of the United Farm Workers in violation of court orders. These have been hard times for Cesar Chavez's UFW. His union, caught in a squeeze...
...world peace are so great that he deserves diplomatic immunity. Even his detractors are hard pressed to ignore the way Laos and Vietnam are basking in the sunshine of peace since the ceasefire. And how happily the little Khmer children frolic on the ruins of their outmoded and unnecessary air-raid shelters! Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children...
...American viewer. Felix Greene, a British film-maker who made Inside North Vietnam in 1967, documents an entire society of such anomalies. The literacy rate in Vietnam was lower after the French left than before they arrived in the nineteenth century, but North Vietnamese children attend school next to air-raid bunkers. When American bombers are sighted, the teacher bangs a gong and the kids retreat into the shelters. When the alarm is over, they emerge happily, grinning like American kids when the ice cream man comes around the corner...
American warplanes were already taking their toll in 1967. A ten-year-old kid, who guides a water buffalo plowing the rice fields, refuses to heed an air-raid warning, instead remaining with his animal. An anti-personnel bomb hits near him, killing the buffalo and tearing his shoulder to shreds with one of its sinister pellets. Greene shows him in a hospital, in screaming pain as his injury is being tended to. His agony, his tears, are a vivid reminder of the searing guilt no amount of post-war reparations could ever repay...