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...Opportunities for training were scarce in post-war Germany, so Dengler emigrated to the U.S., went college, joined the navy, won his wings?and was shot down on his first mission over Laos in 1966, well before the war in Southeast Asia tragically expanded. Captured and imprisoned in what may well be the most horrendous POW camp ever shown in a film, Dieter somehow managed to escape through the jungle - an odyssey that is, if anything, more gut-wrenching than his incarceration...
...time the Class of 1957 had entered their freshman year, the College was facing a looming crisis. Before World War II, the number of students enrolled at the College had barely topped 2,700, however, in the post-war era enrollment swelled to over 3,700 students. In addition, University leaders said a decrease in the number of rooms available for student use had led to significant overcrowding in the Houses, as doubles became triples or quads and meal lines grew longer and longer. As more and more young men sought a Harvard education, the College eschewed slowing its growth...
...like the U.S.-led coalition has done any better. (It was Bremer, after all, who did irreparable damage by disbanding the Iraqi Army and bungling the post-war reconstruction.) Operation Together Forward, which was announced with great fanfare in June 2006, was totally ineffective at quelling the sectarian killings. The Iraqi police training has been a case study in inefficiency, poor planning and the U.S. government's consistent reluctance to invest the money and resources needed into any task in Iraq...
...Pentagon has stepped up its mental-health efforts since 9/11 and the two wars the U.S. launched in its wake. There is better pre- and post-war screenings for troops, and mental-health professionals are available for counseling soldiers in the battle zones. But the APA report notes that there has been a 22% decline in the number of uniformed clinical psychologists in the military. Instead of a standard approach to help soldiers and their families, too often the Pentagon relies on a patchwork approach, where different units develop their own programs that vary widely in quality, the study said...
...Born in Long Island, New York, in 1948, Kominsky Crumb grew up in the type of family she characterizes as "post-war jerk." Kominsky Crumb's rejection of America's "jerk" culture becomes the recurring leitmotif of the book. For her, anything jerk involves "sleaziness, out of control materialism, upward striving, tension, financial problems, selfishness and misery." The early chapters gleefully kick over the rock of the American family. One story, "Wiseguys," for example, details her "loser" father's various bottom-feeding money schemes, including a burglar alarm company whose name, "B.A.R.G." he explained was "grab spelled backwards...