Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration insists that it is policy-makers in Hanoi who are primarily responsible for the continued fighting in the south, and that ever-increasing pressure must be applied to Hanoi until she gives up. But Hanoi sees herself as justly aiding her fellow countrymen, unjustly attacked by the United States. Therefore, Hanoi will not give in to the United States. Before surrendering, she will call in the aid of friendly nations...
...Negroes turned the tide at the Battle of New Orleans by defeating British General Pakenham's seasoned Napoleonic veterans. Andrew Jackson paid them a glowing tribute: "To the Men of Color -Soldiers! I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you; for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable. I knew you could endure hunger and thirst; I knew that you loved the land of your nativity. But you surpass my hopes. Soldiers...
Thus began the period in Lindbergh's life in which he tried to be a political prophet-with results that shocked and saddened most of his countrymen...
...years ago, Greece's King Constantine invited the nation's Orthodox bishops to his palace, implored them "to become bolder in providing for the religious needs" of their countrymen...
...many other bodies were entombed under the shattered walls and roofs of the hilltop bunker line is beyond saying," writes Marshall. "The victors had no wish to delve and dig for the sake of such meaningless statistics. The war in Viet Nam is so little understood by their countrymen that the relative death rate of the two sides is given wholly disproportionate emphasis." After reading this book, those statistics take on a much deeper meaning...