Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN the President's Midway announcement crackled over transistor radios tuned to the Armed Forces Viet Nam Network last week, few G.I.s even paused in their tasks to listen to it. Rumors of troop withdrawals had been making the rounds in the war zone since peace talks got under way in Paris a year ago; when nothing happened, the results were skepticism and indifference. Then word reached the men of the U.S. 9th Infantry and 3rd Marine Divisions that some of them would be among the first 25,000 to be replaced by Vietnamese troops. Green second lieutenants and combat...
...worry, 'cause you know nothing is going to happen. Some nights I don't even feel safe in the bunker. I've seen guys at night just crying. Let the guy cry. It's helping him. I cried. Two good buddies of mine got hit, but it's over with and you can't keep thinking about it." He does think about it, though, and about the terrible loneliness of war. "The only ones who even worry about you are your mother, your pa and your girl," he says...
...year. Here a year seems like five years. I never gave a - about this or that until I came over here. I just read the sports pages before. Now I read and try to form my opinions. I feel I'm more mature since coming over here. I got more responsibility-'cause it's my own ass I've gotta protect." If he succeeds at that task, his happiness at getting out alive will probably conquer whatever bitterness that Viet Nam may have left. "When you're flying home you feel like crying 'cause...
Jack: "He got killed...
...dinner at 8 on his terrace, as if his English cottage were a Florentine villa. Finally he bought Lamb House in Rye, acquired an agent, and managed his business with unsuspected shrewdness. He priced his short stories (in good times, he wrote one a week) at $250, got as much as $375 for an article, and insisted on $3,000 from Harper's Weekly for serial rights to The Awkward...