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...years before when the Allied armies invaded Normandy. Omar Bradley, one of D-day's last surviving great generals, attended ceremonies on Utah Beach and paid homage "to all who sacrificed where only God could witness their charity to their fellow man." Hugh Polley then a Candain sergeant major, recalled being wounded three times. "Don't ask why I went back to the fight. I don't know myself. I landed in the first wave, and by God I wanted to finish it up." Jean-Paul Roncoli organized a French group that visited Arlington National Cemetery last...
...notes Walter Hundley, director of Seattle's Office of Management and Budget. "The really basic control, the entry into professionalism or the middle class is through the white system, and that is the only way you are going to get there." In Phoenix, a black Air Force master sergeant who investigates cases of discrimination in the service asserts: "If you're a black, you can't be yourself and get hired. Whites want to see if you're a good boy first. You have to prove you are not one of the troublemakers, but a black...
...bulky flak jackets, they closed in on the house and gently clicked off the safeties on their semiautomatic weapons. Curious neighbors wandered over, largely unimpeded, to see what was happening. Knots of people stood in their backyards, waiting for some Friday-night entertainment. Minutes later, a Los Angeles police sergeant flipped on his bullhorn and broadcast: "Come out with your hands up! The house is surrounded...
...penologists are also seeking to overturn court decisions concerning the attorney-client privilege and are hoping to regain the right to censor prisoner mail and restrict the flow of supposedly radical reading material into institutions. As an example of the kind of material he would keep out of prisons, Sergeant William Hankins of San Quentin cites the books found in George Jackson's cell after his death, notably Das Kapital by Karl Marx and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Other prison officials place the blame for radical attitudes largely on outsiders, who, they claim, reach the inmates through lawyers...
Author Rubin, who worked with Montagnards as a Special Forces sergeant from 1962 to 1964, uses this simple parable to stunning effect. Through it, the catastrophe that falls upon Buon Yun assumes the inevitable rhythm of high drama. Like the eagle and the tiger, the Americans and Viet Cong tell themselves-and for the most part are convinced-that all they are trying to do is protect the village. The few who sense disaster waiting behind a tangle of motives are powerless to reverse the story line of the Montagnard legend...