Word: awols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summoning reporters to a news conference, the Essex family painted a different picture, one of disillusionment, bitterness and finally hatred. "It all started in the Navy," Jimmy's mother declared. "He was all right when he left here." Confronted with prejudice and discrimination, Jimmy finally went AWOL. He testified at his court-martial: "I had begun to hate all white people. I was tired of going to white people and telling them my problems and not getting anything done about it." He was given a general discharge for "unsuitability" based on character and "behavior disorder." The bitterness left over...
...Eddy, my AWOL friend, said...
...April 1970 five-month-old Thomas Robison of Arroyo Grande was admitted to Sierra Vista Hospital in nearby San Luis Obispo, where Xrays showed that his skull was fractured from ear to ear. The boy's 17-year-old mother, who was living with an AWOL soldier, said he had fallen off a bed, and the child was returned to the mother three days later. Twice within the next month he required further hospital treatment for injuries that included whip welts on the back, puncture wounds in the neck, and burned fingertips; the last time he had strangulation marks...
...Keith Sykes) as he skulks round Japan, looking for help and a place to hide after he goes AWOL. He is aided by sympathetic families, a bar girl, a truck driver and, ultimately, by a counseling group that convinces him that going back to base, then turning himself in, is the best thing to do. Hiroshi Teshigahara's previous film, Woman in the Dunes, (1964), was overburdened by a kind of febrile surrealism, but it at least demonstrated energy. Summer Soldiers is slackly directed in a trumped-up documentary style. Jim is a numbingly inarticulate spokesman for war resistance...
...nothing more than sign pay books have become known as the "Linh Ma"-the phantom troops. Once a man has been drafted into the army, the name of the game becomes desertion. An estimated one-third of all the men in fighting units have deserted or gone AWOL at some time, and even North Viet Nam's tightly disciplined army has had desertions...