Word: replays
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...Nebraska My brother and I were in the 9th Infantry Division. We had responsibility for the Mekong Delta, so I'm familiar with the general area where Kerrey's incident occurred. Our mission was to search and destroy, kill the enemy, run ambush patrols. I don't ever really replay (killings) at all. I learned a long time ago that that's a torture I don't wish to put myself through. (But) you can't help having certain recollections when something like (Kerrey's story) comes to light. What you do is you start taking your own personal inventory...
...under him, part of an action for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. From this side of the Pacific, the straightforward story of a bemedalled, wounded hero resonated easily with a public which would rather not face up to the fact that Vietnam wasn't a replay of World War II - the so-called "Good War" - but a messy, muddled civil conflagration that could not be fought without compromising the values America cherished, and even then could not be won given the nature of the enemy...
...thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better. A minority have vowed to shut down the meeting, in a replay of the chaos that beset the 1999 gathering of the World Trade Organization in Seattle - a threat apparently serious enough to persuade the Canadian summit organizers to turn the meeting site into a 10-sq-km redoubt...
...Rewind your mental tape to December. Replay the howls of Balkan imprecation that rose from the land. Recall the rage-red faces of blue America - "I will drink your blood!" Remember the purity of that indignation, untainted by the slightest doubt that George W. Bush had stolen the election...
...showing off its Media Terminal, a souped-up set-top box for the living room, which enables full Internet access over TV broadcast networks. Features include a split screen that can show both TV and the Internet, a remote with built-in keyboard, the ability to pause or replay live broadcasts, digital TV that records to a hard disc, video on demand, a file audio player, e-mail, 3D games, digital radio and connections to devices such as printers and cameras. For its part Hitachi will be showing how smart cards can be inserted into set-top boxes to purchase...