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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stood near two fortyish men talking softly about a bungled mortar attack a generation and half a world away. Two helicopters whirred overhead, the sound both jarring and fitting. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers or as high school classmates. Instead the vision came of proud fathers, perhaps survivors of World War II combat, holding up their squawking boy babies and announcing to the world, "He'll have my name, Irvin." "I'll call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Dove Faces Up to War | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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