Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William R. Doerner. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Johanna McGeary/ Washington and Jack E. White with Mondale
...George J. Church. Reported by Jack E. White with Mondale
...country at last seems to be contemplating and unsnarling the residual complexities of the Viet Nam War. In Washington, the earth-and-black-granite monument to those who died in the war, which is not quite two years old, draws 12,000 visitors a day. Viet Nam Veteran Jack Wheeler, 39, a driving force behind it, is pleased. "More of the visitors are people my age who didn't go," says Wheeler, author of Touched with Fire: The Future of the Viet Nam Generation. "And there are a lot of women. What that signals is a desire to think...
...patriotic impulse is tempered by their generational experience. "If patriotism is love of country, the land and communities, we'll buy that," says David McCauley, head of the Vermont American Friends Service Committee. "If it is just flag waving and adventurism in foreign policy, we won't." Jack Wheeler believes the disputes of the past 20 years permanently affected his peers' sense of citizenship. "The Viet Nam generation was an idealistic bunch of people," he told TIME Washington Correspondent Jay Branegan. "This idealism is fertile ground for a healthy patriotism." By healthy, Wheeler means cooler and more...
...Solomon: he was dead serious when he proposed cutting the baby in half, that putz. I swear to God. The dumb son of a bitch was trying to be fair, not shrewd." Dialogues between exasperated father and nincompoop son appear to be modeled on the old radio sketches of Jack Benny and Dennis Day. David: "Do you understand what I'm saying to you about Joab? Do not let his hoar head go peacefully down to the grave." Solomon: "What's a hoar head?" After one particularly frustrating session, David tries to get rid of the young...