Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ended in July 1953. Seoul, which is only 35 miles from the DMZ, has invested heavily in the lines, especially the Alpha line, which crosses the Munsan and Chorwan valleys -- where North Korea would probably push through. Since April, the U.S. has dispatched a battallion's worth of Patriot missiles to South Korea and replaced older Cobra helicopter gunships with new, more potent Apaches. Pentagon officials say all key ports and airfields are being fine-tuned for action. Fuel supplies and depots are being topped off at maximum capacity. The U.S. has withdrawn older iron bombs and replaced them with...
...antiaircraft guns and long-range SA-5 missiles, with many of those deeply dug into the ground. The most urgent job for aerial forces would be to blunt the North's offensive with antiarmor smart bombs and cluster bombs. Southern airfields have strengthened their defenses, and the arrival of Patriot missiles should help fend off lethal Scuds...
They said it was a life of glamour, but it was really a life of splendor. I want to say, Listen, kid, buck up, don't be blue -- the thing about this woman and her life is that she was a patriot, who all by herself one terrible weekend lifted and braced the heart of a nation...
...that weekend long ago, and our children who have only a child's sense of who and what she was. I wish we could stand on the sidewalk as the caisson passes, and take off our hat, and explain to our sons and daughters and say, "That is a patriot passing by." I wish I could see someone'slittle boy, in a knee-length coat, lift his arm and salute...
...story revolves around David Williams, an American history professor under siege by his colleagues and the board of trustees for his refusal to sign a loyalty oath. Played by Jason Cooper, David evinces all the moist-eyed idealism of a true patriot; in both his home and classroom, he has large portraits of his personal hero, Abraham Lincoln, and teaches to his students a mixture of red-white-and-blue rhetoric and history. His wife Elisabeth (Amy Brown) and daughter Joanne (Genevieve Roach) complete the wholesome family portrait. But a closer inspection of the Williams reveals the growing stress fractures...