Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan gave special assurances to the men who fought in World War II. "To the veterans and families of American servicemen who still feel the painful losses of that war, our gesture of reconciliation today in no way minimizes our love and honor for those who fought and died for our country." To the "survivors of the Holocaust," he said: "Many of you are worried that reconciliation means forgetting. But I promise you, we will never forget...
...They fought, they fought hard, but they only had two girls who could compete with us," said Harvard women's tennis Coach Don Usher...
...YORK - Thousands of Vietnam veterans who returned home to indifference or worse gathered yesterday in wheelchairs, military fatigues and business suits to help dedicate the city's memorial to those who fought in Southeast Asia...
...Kladko's second error is not quite as silly. In passing, he claims that although the German soldiers of World War II did not act on as solid a moral basis as our own troops in that conflict, their position was comparable to that of the American soldiers who fought the Vietnam War. Both groups, he says, were forced by the draft or by duty to fight "aggressive, immoral ways." This comparison is an insult to history and to the soldiers who fought in Indochina. To the soldiers of the time, North Vietnamese Communists were totalitarian aggressors...
...Black and White had more of a battle with the headwind than with Brown or Northeastern, who fought it out for second...