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...McCall's greatest political challenges came when in 1970, at the height of the Vietnam anti-war movement and in the midst of McCall's re-election campaign, the American Legion scheduled a convention in Portland. In response, a group called the People's Army planned a massive protest in the streets of Portland...
...knelt, cried for a minute and left behind his campaign medals: Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit. Another, like many of the veterans in olive drab, added his name to an ad hoc battalion sheet someone had staked in the ground; he stood back, saluted, saw his reflection in the polished black stone, then let out a kind of agonized whimper before two buddies led him away. An Illinois mother ran her fingers once, twice across the name JERRY DANAY, who was killed by a rocket. "It makes me feel closer," Helen Danay said as she remembered...
...veterans who made their way to the capital last week for the National Salute to Viet Nam Veterans, an event organized by the ex-soldiers for themselves. The gathering sometimes seemed conventional: patriotic eulogies, American Legion caps, martial music and maudlin, affectionate reunions of old platoon chums. But the convocation had an edge, a sense of catharsis, mainly because it was large and public. In the end, with a splendidly ragtag march down Constitution Avenue and the dedication of the Veterans Memorial, the spectacle seemed like the national homecoming the country had never offered...
...right, Superman-so he's supposed to be a kind of nice, charming guy. Now I hear that concerned Americans of every religious persuasion are trying to fight this movie by laughing it off the screen. But what I want to know is: Where's the Legion of Decency when we really need it? Thank you and good night, everybody...
This, as Kissinger suggests, may be as risky as overgenerosity. The banks thus have no easy way out of their bad-loan bind. They can only hope that a robust economic recovery, both in the U.S. and abroad, will revive the fortunes of the legion of hard-pressed debtor companies and countries. - By Charles Alexander...