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This is a valid comparison. Much like Vietnam, Bosnia is a land foreign to American soldiers. It presents an unfamiliar terrain and adds to it a people with unfamiliar language and cultural traditions. The origin of the Bosnian conflict is largely alien to the average American GI, and the rationale behind American intervention is further hidden in ambiguity. In as much as Vietnam became the manifestation of George Kennan's containment doctrine, so has Bosnia become the symbol of America's ambivalent role as the global superpower. If not with Vietnam, then similar comparisons are provided by the military disaster...
Sharon W. Gi '98 and Sewell Chan '98 were elected co-presidents of the Asian-American Association (AAA) Tuesday night...
...factors was that the GI Bill hadbeen enacted, and I had to leave school because Ididn't have any money," Calese says. "I thoughtthis would be a way of finishing...
...gave me the GI Bill..which enabled me to goback graduate school," she says. "that was a realincentive. It made graduate school or collegepossible for many, many people...
...Sharon Gi '98 concurred. "I haven't really beenup on the political thing, so it was veryhelpful," she said...