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...Krass] has improved under presure," Amy deLone said. "Ed used to pace up and down and was upset during his losses. At first, he came in, gung-ho on tennis, but, as he became more accomplished, he cared about other things. He's very understanding. It's nice to know that if you have an hourly, you don't have to pretend and make up an excuse to miss practice...
Kovic wrote Born on the Fourth of July, a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in Vietnam and of his return home. The book, later adapted as an award-winning movie, charts the change in Kovic's attitude toward American society and illustrates how a gung-ho patriot transforms himself into a passionate protester for peace...
...Pulliam's second wife) told him, "Don't start any more trouble in the family. We already have enough problems." Quayle's father James -- an ex-Marine who named his son for a friend, James A. Danforth, a World War II hero killed in action in Germany -- was gung-ho for Viet Nam. J. Danforth Quayle was, famously, not. Considering the other enthusiasms of his father's, from Robert Welch to Ashbrook, from Nostradamus to Fundamentalist preacher "Colonel" Robert Thieme, there is something to be said for the son's reluctance to join his father's battles. Quayle grew...
...military-school cadet who goes picturesquely bonkers and is killed by the National Guard. "It's beautiful, man! Beautiful!" he shouts as he sprays the quad with an orgasm of machine-gun fire. In his first significant film of the '80s, as in his last, Cruise was the gung-ho soldier boy, his body destroyed in the fantasy of combat...
Three survivors carry the burden of Atkinson's narrative. Tom Carhart is a gung-ho lieutenant whose career is derailed by accidents and disfigured by a war he can neither take nor leave. Jack Wheeler is an idealistic Army brat who loses his military faith in the trenches. Postwar, both men have turbulent domestic lives; both resign their commissions, as do nearly 25% of their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into...