Word: hackworth
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DIED. DAVID HACKWORTH, 74, one of the country's most decorated soldiers, who returned his 80 medals to protest the Army's efforts to court-martial him for unrelated alleged violations after he called Vietnam a "bad," unwinnable war on national television in 1971; of bladder cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. His 25-year military career included tours of duty in seven war zones, and he was said to have been the inspiration for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. More recently, as a TV pundit, he scorned the "perfumed princes" of the Bush Administration, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...