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Hernandez, an environmental-protection specialist for the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, describes his daughter as a gentle soul. One afternoon they went to look at tidal pools together. The tide had come in, stranding hundreds of sea cucumbers. Amber spent the afternoon rescuing the helpless things. "She was a happy girl," he says. "I don't know what happened." He adds, "My message is to love your kids as much as you can, because you don't know what's going to happen...
DIED. DAVID MCCAMPBELL, 86, Medal of Honor naval aviation ace and commander famous for shooting down 34 Japanese planes during World War II; in Riviera Beach, Florida. His Air Group 15 shot down hundreds more...
...area. About half are afloat in the gulf, while Air Force, Army and Marine personnel operate out of four bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (there may be as many as four air bases in Saudi Arabia alone, but the U.S. refuses to give the exact number). A naval station in Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, is host to 32 ships, including a carrier deck full of warplanes. Kuwait and Qatar have each agreed to store enough armor, artillery and supplies for an entire brigade of U.S. soldiers; a similar accord with the United Arab Emirates...
...most of the commandos should never have been sent on the missions in the first place. North Vietnam's Hanoi agents "had penetrated the operation from the beginning," says Sedgwick Tourison, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who has written a book on the operation (Secret Army, Secret War; Naval Institute Press). For three years, the agency's Saigon station continued to send teams into North Vietnam even as evidence mounted that the North Vietnamese seemed always to know where and when they were coming. Some captured radio operators, ordered by the North Vietnamese to ask for more agents, managed...
...wearing of questionable medals a transgression serious enough to warrant taking one's life? Readers who wrote us about the suicide of Mike Boorda, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], expressed varying views. Rand Knox of San Rafael, California, remembered the recent forced resignations of other high-ranking military officials and suggested Boorda had overreacted. Wrote Knox: "The military makes the trivial important and the important trivial." Retired Army Sergeant Major David L. Pompili of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor...