Word: cankers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...festers like a canker in the minds of many of the 2.7 million Vietnam veterans and the 750,000 Vietnamese who live in the U.S. The 3,600 members of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia still believe there may be loved ones locked in prisons hidden somewhere in the impenetrable Annamese Cordillera. What-might-have-been gnaws at some of the draft dodgers who fled to Canada or into the National Guard. Certainly the war prompted career choices for young men who joined the Peace Corps or enrolled in graduate school to stay...