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...before the book was published, but a task force was convened to comb its pages for security violations; suddenly he was threatened with a court-martial. That threat passed, though Corson got a "nonjudicial reprimand." Since his retirement he has kept his sense of outrage over how the grunt was treated both in Viet Nam and at home. "We barely gave them a pat on the tail and said, 'Go ahead, kid,' " he says. "The greatest mystery for me is why they continued to fight." He points out that unlike U.S. soldiers in other wars, most Vietvets never...
...waited, gathering all of himself into this preparation for the charge as soon as the men would come into the grass. As he heard their voices his tail stiffened to twitch up and down, and, as they came into the edge of grass, he made a coughing grunt and charged. --Hemingway. " The Short Happy Life...
...called sneaky fast. In 1977 maverick Mayor Peter Flaherty quit to take a job in the Carter Administration. As city council president, Caliguiri automatically became interim mayor; an Italian immigrant's son and home-town boy, he got his first city job, as he puts it, as "a grunt in the parks department." In return for six months in the municipal limelight, Caliguiri promised Democratic bosses that he wouldn't run for a full term. Or so they understood. Shortly after the primary, lifelong Party Regular Caliguiri turned uppity and declared himself an independent candidate. He cannily...
...almost picture my platoon," says one former lieutenant, "how tall they were, where they were from, what they did-I mean, who cried and who didn't cry." An ex-grunt remembers a godlike feeling: "I could take a life, I could screw a woman, I can beat somebody up and get away with it." Another returns home to join a stickup gang: "It wasn't the money with me. I was doing things for a handshake. I wanted the adrenaline pump...
Report is a 45-minute manual on the grunt's first challenge: combatting boredom while he learns his job. War isn't hell, it's just a drag. In depicting men at work, at meals, at the meager forms of play available to them, the film seems relentlessly mundane. And so it is -if the viewer forgets that many of these youngsters, smiling or shivering or just hanging around, are marking time before an early, explosive death...