Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military punctilio-which was not the way that Viet Nam went at all. The men in the honor guard wore dress uniforms and skinhead haircuts and composed their young faces into masks of abstracted obedience. Like robots suffering an obscure sorrow, they carried the casket of the new Unknown Soldier, the one from Viet Nam. They laid him to rest last week at Arlington National Cemetery beside those from the two World Wars and Korea...
...American mind. Even at this remove, the war is still intensely felt, but now in a more reflective, inward way. The Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, dedicated in 1982, is as popular as the Lincoln Memorial and the National Air and Space Museum. The entombment of the Unknown Soldier was another symbol of the nation's respect for the uniquely complex ordeal of the Viet Nam veteran. In a quiet, moving speech at Arlington, President Reagan concluded, "Let us, if we must, debate the lessons learned at some other time; today we simply say with pride: Thank you, dear...
...tear-stained and cathartic day. Weeping, veterans saluted the anonymous bones in the casket, and the pain of memory was visible in their eyes. The prevailing note was one of acceptance and reconciliation, as if in burying the Unknown Soldier, the nation were also interring another measure of its residual bitterness...
...group of Viet Nam veterans, many of them dressed in camouflage fatigues, formed up outside the Capitol, where the Unknown Soldier had lain in state for three days. The vets tried to join the line of march-some military bands and representatives of the services and veterans groups-that was to escort the caisson to Arlington. The police intervened. Once again, as in the war, there was a gap between official policy and the will of the grunts. Once again, some Viet Nam veterans were being denied the soldier's crucial ceremony of return from war: the parade...
...mujahedin, coordinating their attacks by radio, ambushed a fleet of Soviet vehicles traveling along the Salang Road, the main highway between Kabul and the Soviet border. By the following day, little remained of the Soviet procession save smoke, smashed and smoldering trucks, and the body of an Afghan government soldier (left). Four days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front of the enemy vehicles and behind them. Then, from their mountain hideouts, they rained heavy machine-gun fire down upon their...