Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soldiers in their khaki uniforms shuttled in and out. Students trooped in from the countryside, commandeered to work in the munitions factories. A tide of refugees restlessly washed the streets, seeking sanctuary. Yet many of the ordinary routines of life persisted, and even some of life's small pleasures...
Three years ago, Daniel Schacht, an electronics consultant, turned up outside the Houston military induction center wearing a khaki Army shirt and World War II officer's cap. Outside the center, he performed in a piece of "guerrilla theater" meant to dramatize American brutality in Viet Nam. Schacht was convicted of violating federal law that forbids wearing a distinctive part of a military uniform in theatrical productions if the role "discredits" the military. Schacht was sentenced to six months in prison and a $250 fine...
...reason that I came to Kent State University was for an education. And I'm getting one. Seeing those khaki-green tents and trucks on the football field, men carrying real M-1 rifles loaded with real ammunition, and then witnessing some of my fellow students bleeding and hysterical, left a far deeper impression within me than my most effective professor could have...
This book cannot stop the war. Its only aim is help those who dissent. [It is] designed as a practical guide for those who do not feel they should have to wear either military khaki or prison stripes. . . It is written in the hope that no potential IV-F dies fighting a war to which he is opposed...
...west of Saigon. Pines reports: "In one village, where the V.C. had burned a district office that Sean wanted to photograph, we two Americans created quite a commotion. Sean, especially, fascinated them. Six feet tall, strikingly handsome, with long blond hair almost to his shoulders, he wore only sandals, khaki shorts, a white pullover and love beads. While he was photographing the house, we saw South Vietnamese air force planes bombing just across the border. We had learned earlier in the day that both Vietnamese and American artillery and airplanes had begun regular missions on Cambodian soil. Sean wanted...