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With his tiring forces beginning to lose ground, Army commander Les Wothke made the logical military move--he brought in a fresh platoon...
...patrols and not the pitiful remnants of the Sioux and Cheyenne. But the views were still important: the views of Jackson's Hole and the Tetons, or of the old Indian camps. Or the view of the Little Big Horn, where he and some of his platoon would ride from Fort Custer to pick over the site, for holiday and to bury pieces of bone and harness and indulge in the traditional recreation of soldiers visiting an old battlefield: to re-fight the engagement...
...dignified, everything the Viet Nam War was not. By the end of last week the adjacent ground was a fringe of private memorial icons: messages in ink and gold glitter, photographs, candles, tiny flags and hundreds of flowers. Virginian Larry Cox, one of four survivors from a 27-man platoon, found the black granite chilling. Still, he said, "it's a first step to remind America of what...
...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...
...They laid him out in the living room. Russell was five. The Depression began to howl. His mother took him and a sister to live with relatives in Newark and later in Baltimore. The world became a gray hell of treeless streets and schoolyard bullies. But Baker had a platoon of entertaining uncles. There was Uncle Hal the blowhard, who turned up en route he said, to a major business deal involving "a forest full of walnut of the finest, rarest quality. Its location was known only to him. He would need great cleverness to keep New York businessmen from...