Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to do what you're told. It's something you have to do," adds Vietnam veteran Frank Moynihan, who says he believes the real motive behind Operation Desert Storm is to "free...
...behind the men and women who had to go, but I don't know the reasons why they had to go and I don't think I care," says Vietnam veteran Warren Quinlan, who is wearing an "Operation Desert Storm" T-shirt given to him at the Bedford Veterans' Administration Hospital from which he was discharged that...
Steinberg, who says he was discharged early from the Veterans' Administration hospital in Bedford in order to make room for the wounded from Operation Desert Storm, says the government is always more responsive to veterans who are physically handicapped than to those mentally disabled...
...veterans also say they are impressed by the efficiency of Operation Desert Storm, attributing its success to less political involvement and a more organized military...
Except, perhaps, on Capitol Hill. Congress remained doggedly silent while Bush deployed Desert Shield and Desert Sword. After a brief flurry of honest discussion before the onset of Desert Storm, the legislative branch lapsed into silence (except for a plethora of inane support-the-war, ensure-our-reelection resolutions) for the remainder of the conflict. Bush's occasional trespasses of his constitutional executive prerogatives were understandable in light of Congress' stubborn refusals to address an issue of war and peace...