Word: rets
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...lives or limbs, there should be a special decoration for their bravery. Of course, a medal can't replace the loss of a limb, but it can be a way for the American people to give recognition to reporters who have acted with valor. Jesse E. Foster Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Tokyo Having torn a tendon in my right rotator cuff, for which the only treatment is surgery, I have been obsessed with how I'm going to get dressed, do my hair and apply my make up with my dominant hand in a sling. Then I read Weisskopf's story...
...professional army. It would be best for the U.S. to find an honorable way out of Iraq quickly. Swift and transparent trial and punishment of the perpetrators of those crimes are the least the U.S. owes to the Iraqi people and indeed to its conscience. Major Raza Ishaq Malik (ret.) Lahore...
...live here and die here you have to go somewhere else," says the wiry farmer, rolling a cigarette. "Because you've already been to Heaven." Some district cattlemen consider him a blow-in, but Burton is finding this stage of his life busier than he expected. "Supposedly ret-ired," he says, with mischief in his eyes. "I was happy catching crayfish and sinking piss." But now he's living at Springvale and running several properties for his son Jack, whose base is Yeeda Station near Derby, a 600-km drive west. "Bought this place three years ago for $15.2 million...
GENERAL BARRY McCAFFREY, U.S.A. (RET.) Former U.S. drug czar In the 10 years since I've been out of uniform, I've been increasingly aware that without an aggressive free media publicizing shortcomings in government, this nation would work ineffectively at its public business. [The press] talking about a generalized vulnerability we have--that trains aren't protected--and railing against it sufficiently is more likely to protect us than put us in peril. If you publish diagrams of network computer switching, that wouldn't be the case...
...interviews will haunt viewers long after they have left the theaters: Nguyet Anh Duong, a refugee of the Vietnam War, who now designs bombs for the U.S. Army; and Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, Ret., a life-long soldier and Pentagon staffer who became so disillusioned with the conduct of the current Iraq War that she retired from the military and has forbidden her sons from enlisting...