Word: jima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the American grief in Viet Nam was played out in the national imagination by way of movies and television. If the grunts on search-and-destroy in the Central Highlands sometimes kept themselves going with a jolt of John Wayne from The Sands of two Jima, the people at home took their war each night live in their living rooms, mainlined by television directly into the bloodstream. Viet Nam was so intimately recorded that it became almost unendurably real-yet also impossibly remote, 9,000 miles away, a dark hallucination. And along with the war on the tube...
...suffered three heart attacks and two strokes. Although his parents are alive at 89 and 82, he has had severe cataracts removed, is sterile, and must take two dozen pills a day. His problems, he insists, stem from his two years as an Army radar repairman on Iwo Jima during World War II when he was so severely exposed to microwaves that his brown hair turned red. Says he: "I was cooked...
Similar scenes are taking place throughout the country this year as Japanese pay their final farewells to friends and relatives who died in 1945. The casualties that year were staggering: the Japanese estimate that they lost 300,000 in the Philippines, 20,000 at Two Jima, 200,000 at Okinawa, 140,000 in Hiroshima, 70,000 at Nagasaki and 100,000 in the firebombings of Tokyo...
Fred D. Henderson, 48, a mold-maker in an Atlanta glass company, spent about 1,000 hours carving and engraving a Marlin rifle with the images of Abraham Lincoln, the Liberty Bell and such historical events as the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and the astronauts exploring the moon. "We were just sitting around one evening and my wife said, 'Why don't you do something for the President?' " explains Henderson...
...promiscuity. Some men have quick, anonymous and furtive sex in the men's rooms of public parks, subway stations or college buildings. Others seek nightly for partners in established pickup areas. In Lincoln, Neb., they cruise near the Governor's mansion; in Arlington, Va., near the Iwo Jima memorial. In the Fens and "the Block," in Boston's Back Bay, homosexuals run the risk of getting badly beaten and even killed by roaming gangs who are out to get them. Most of the sex is free; some is for sale...