Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to pull rank on you." With that, the Commander in Chief proceeded to lavish an encomium on Brigadier General James L. Dozier for bravery during his 42-day ordeal as a prisoner of Italy's Red Brigades terrorists. Added Reagan with deft simplicity: "Welcome home, soldier...
...Dozier, deputy chief of staff for logistics and administration and the highest ranking U.S. officer at NATO's Southern Europe land forces headquarters in Verona, recovered with remarkable speed. At Padua police headquarters, the Florida-born career soldier insisted, "I'm fine," and called his wife Judith in Frankfurt, where she was visiting her daughter Cheryl, 24, an Air Force second lieutenant. Then he called his boss, Admiral William J. Crowe, commander of NATO'S Southern Region. Speaking by telephone to U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb in Rome, Dozier recounted the final seconds before he was freed. Said...
...random sample of patients who had suffered near fatal medical crises, defined as any unconscious bodily state that "would be expected to result in irreversible biological death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance, was discovered to be alive only when a mortician saw blood flowing from a vein into which he was about to inject embalming fluid...
...nation where every man's son or daughter is a potential soldier is a nation less likely to go to war for a bad cause. One refrain from the Vietnam era was that, if the draft had not exempted the sons of Congressmen and corporate leaders, the conflict would have ended sooner or perhaps never begun...
...heart attack; in Los Angeles. A military motif threaded through the career of Lembeck, a World War II veteran. He played a prisoner of war in the Broadway and Hollywood versions of Stalag 17, a duty sergeant in the film The Last Time I Saw Archie and a soldier in the movie Back at the Front...