Word: oakleaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time President Nixon ordered the resumption of bombing over Hanoi and Haiphong on Dec. 18, B-52 Pilot Michael Heck, 30, had racked up more than 150 bombing missions during a number of stints in Indochina, a Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with eleven oakleaf clusters-and an impressive list of reservations about the Viet Nam War. With each new bombing run over the populated cities of the North, those doubts grew. Finally, on the day after Christmas, Heck announced to his wing commander that he could no longer in good conscience participate in the intensified bombing campaign...
...suicide at 30. Honorable discharges for Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey and James Michener. Of that generation of promising World War II novelists, only two have combined the talent, versatility, nerve, style and combative instincts to make it in the great big American way that joins the oakleaf cluster of durable celebrity to money. Obviously one is Norman Mailer. The other, not usually thought of as having been a young war novelist, is Gore Vidal. At 20 he published Williwaw, a taut, widely praised tale of life aboard a World War II Army tanker in the North Pacific...