Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the Army's charges against him, Lieut. William Calley killed 102 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai three years ago. But in the long process of his trial at Fort Benning, Ga., Rusty Calley has become a celebrity, almost a hero to some. His secretary has collected 10,000 fan letters v. seven in a file marked "derogatory." Paul Harvey, the conservative commentator, has dispatched no fewer than 25 letters. In the first, Harvey said: "I have every confidence that you are a fine military officer that we can all be proud of." A Calley friend in Atlanta...
Font's letter to his congressman detailing the conditions in some of the barracks at Fort Meade has led to an investigation by the House Armed Services Committee...
...beret proudly. It will be a mark of distinction and a badge of courage in the fight for freedom." The Green Berets were, in this war at least, a final flowering of glory-Pimpernels, the last Lone Rangers, ready for anything, ascetic, hard as knives, Apaches with diplomas from Fort Bragg. For a time they were American heroes. In 1965, Robin Moore's novel The Green Berets became a bestseller, and a year later, Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Berets went to the top of the song charts. John Wayne even made a mock-heroic hagiographical...
...seven specific allegations against Koster. There was "some evidence" to support the other two: that the commander failed to report the civilian casualties he knew about and that he did not "ensure a proper and thorough initial investigation." Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman, commanding general of the First Army at Fort Meade, Md., decided to drop the case. His reasons were that Koster had had a "long and honorable career," and that there was no evidence of any "intentional abrogation of responsibilities" on his part...
...tried the idea six months ago at home as a way of helping some of their jobless friends. The idea paid off so handsomely that Campbell and Scott now have flowers flown in from growers in Colorado, California and Illinois, and have hired young people to sell them in Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Little Rock, Ark., and Wichita, Kans. They intend to reach into ten other cities and are trying to copyright the name Flower Children. "We felt," said Campbell, "that this was an idea that could really benefit from combining the hippie and flower-children aspect with...