Word: regimentations
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Finally, one wall features architectural surveys taken from a professor's office and another displays an army regiment's "Don't Tread on Me" flag...
...enough of trail tours? The Black Heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston Common. This monument honors the first regiment of Black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil War, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's version of the tale, Glory...
Revenge for more recent horrors also inspires them. Many of the Serbs in the First Brigade of the Doboj Regiment defending this ridge were driven from homes in territory now controlled mostly by Muslims. They have come to these trenches as refugees, often after harrowing escapes; they have lost everything and say they will not run any farther. The great majority are peasants who have no skill at politics but a great capacity for hardship when they are certain of their course. They are Serbian true believers. No matter what the politicians order, no matter what the world thinks, they...
Inevitably, Tobias says, he was kicked out of Hill for ignorance and bad ) behavior. His memoir ends there, but his life didn't. He went on to serve in Vietnam as an adviser to a Vietnamese regiment in the Delta during the Tet offensive. Then he got a degree at Oxford. He worked for a few months as a reporter at the Washington Post, then quit to invent himself again, this time truthfully, as a fiction writer...
...better life and seemed well on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo, 21 -- who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm -- pulled duty in Somalia with elements of his California- based regiment. When his night patrol retreated under sudden gunfire near Mogadishu airport last Tuesday, Arroyo was discovered to be missing. His body was recovered within minutes, and he became the first uniformed fatality of Operation Restore Hope...