Word: lai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northwest of Saigon, Romney made a little sermonette, suited, if for anything at all, for Good Friday. "We have to lose ourselves for others," he declared, as his audience listened in silence. "Some have to lose our lives young and some when we are older." At the Lai Khe mess hall later on, he insisted upon examining the garbage cans "because I wanted to see how much food they were eating." The soldier whom he watched eat the most got a typical Romney reward: one of his medallions...
...Silver Star and been recommended for another Bronze Star. Pawlaczyk and Passantino were with the 1st Battalion's 18th Regiment on Oct. 7, when it engaged in a fierce battle with the 271st Viet Cong Regiment nine miles northwest of the division's forward base at Lai Khe. During the burial of the 25 enemy dead, CBS Newsman Webster and Cameraman John Smith arrived on the scene from Saigon. Then-perhaps to oblige Smith's need for dramatic footage or their own need for a grisly revenge-Passantino and some other, still unidentified G.I.s took turns cutting...
...everyone who saw it, the body certainly looked like Guinn, John W., Private First Class, 53756082, U.S. Army. Two of the infantryman's buddies identified the corpse in a paddyfield near Chu Lai after a firefight with the Viet Cong. When morticians in the Elizabethton, Tenn., funeral home opened the casket last week, even Mrs. Blanche Guinn, 54, thought she recognized her 23-year-old son, despite the bandages that partially covered his face. She hung funeral wreaths, framed the telegram notifying her of his death along with a $25 money order he had mailed...
Back at Chu Lai for a pre-departure press conference, Humphrey told reporters: "I almost hate to go back. I haven't heard a single gripe from one American-but when I get back to Washington, I'm sure that I will be able to compensate...
...there are two things that characterize America in war," he told the U.S. embassy staff in Saigon, "they are disagreement and valor." At the burgeoning base of Chu Lai, where he awarded medals to soldiers of the America Division, Humphrey reminded his audience that "nation-building is our business," and warned that "unless we win it here, America doesn't have another chance." In sessions with Thieu and Ky, he urged development of sound political parties and an end to the corruption and wrangling that has so often disrupted Vietnamese political life. To one and all, he passed along...