Word: infantryman
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...with me being where I am today." Bob Gingrich could only listen in silence. Last week he was almost as taciturn, explaining his decision to sit simply: "After the third standing ovation, it gets a little old." Said the Speaker of his father: "He is a good infantryman who is highly disciplined and deeply trained to avoid emotion." As for himself, Newt admitted the excitement was getting to him, but he was holding his emotions in check. "I don't want to break down...
...been down all year," says an industry watcher. The Power Rangers have handed the veteran infantryman an unconditional defeat. All non-Power Ranger action figures have done badly -- "They're pretty much duds," says an analyst -- though Hasbro's Batman bucks the trend...
...figure of a mother; Amy Tan's fiction reaches its heights the minute she turns to China. For Tim O'Brien, who deferred his admission as a graduate student at Harvard in order to serve in Vietnam, the elemental theme is his experience there as a shy and questioning infantryman. O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) is perhaps the finest imaginative reconstruction of that war; and his story Speaking of Courage (from The Things They Carried, 1990), the most poignant evocation of a Vietnam veteran's displacement upon returning home...
...served about a year and a half with the 25th Infantry Division near the Viet Cong stronghold of Cu Chi, has been denied benefits because his job description shows he was a radar operator. Yurong, now known simply as Nano, was pressed into service, he says, as an infantryman throughout his tour. The VA grants that he has PTSD but says he must have contracted it elsewhere. Such arguments enrage V.F.W. activist Cowan. "When you first go to the VA, you are denied benefits. Fifty percent of the vets don't go back. The second time you are denied...
...think my son might be very angry if he thought I was not totally in support, in admiration and love for all the men and women in the service over there," says Leona Murray, who attends weekly vigils in Hyannis, Mass., while her 19-year-old son, infantryman Jay Coull, patrols in Saudi Arabia. "I certainly am not protesting their actions. I'm protesting a government that would take such drastic steps for very cloudy reasons...