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...peasant costumes the chorus women will wear in the Aug. 24-27 performances: "We'll have a sewing bee and cut them out; then everyone will take theirs home and sew it up." The men, who are outnumbered three to one-"we should get a medal," jokes Ken Martin-are building a gondola. "It's hard work," says Campbell, "but it brings us all together." And "what else are you going to do?" says Martin, who's been the society's president for 20 years. "Stay home and watch...
...detainee operations in Iraq; from the U.S. Army; in Washington. The interrogation techniques the two-star general helped organize at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib were so controversial that Miller retired rather than face rebuke. Army officials, insisting Miller was wrongly taking the fall, awarded him with the Distinguished Service Medal at his Pentagon retirement ceremony...
...received the medal of honor in Israel for 20 years of volunteer service. I am now 45. For many years, I kept in touch with one of my two fellow captives. But had no contact with the other one. Two or three years ago, I visited him in the desert where he lives. He criticized me for speaking out about my experiences in Syria. My perspective is that people need the support. They know that there's more than misery. A capture doesn't mean the end of life...
...started imposing conditions and measures simply to crush the revolution: subversion, dirty wars, mercenary invasions, assassination plots against us. I have an Olympic record in that regard, and I should be awarded a medal because there is no individual against whom so many assassination plots have been contrived, who is still living. That is partly luck. And partly because of the inefficiency of the ones who carried out the plots: they were not fanatics but people who were paid...
...made up as much as 20% of the Union Army in the Civil War, and served in both world wars. These days, more of them complete their initial enlistment -- 80%, compared to 70% for citizens -- saving the Pentagon millions in training costs. More than 20% of the nation's Medal of Honor winners have been non-citizens, and three of the last five chairmen of the Joint Chiefs -- the nation's top military officer -- have been immigrants or the sons of immigrants. Emilio Gonzalez, head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says he lacks "the eloquence to accurately describe...