Word: soldier
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Arthur White, a correspondent in TIME's London bureau, reported on the state of Britain during the days just before the Normandy invasion. He found his assignment "one of bittersweet nostalgia," since he was then stationed in London as a 20-year-old soldier-reporter for Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper of the U.S. armed forces...
...There is often, at such times, a sense of fatalism, of something preordained. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the 82nd Airborne, felt it no less strongly. "Sometimes, at night," he recalled, "it was almost as if I could hear the assurance that God the Father gave to another soldier, named Joshua: 'I will not fail thee nor forsake thee...
...Government specifications. A lot of this was really misdirected." Attempts by the veterans to sue the military have thus far been blocked by a 1950 decision, Feres vs. United States, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Government cannot be held liable for injuries that a soldier suffers while on duty. In addition, the Veterans Administration has balked at paying for treatment of many ailments that the veterans believe are related to Agent Orange, thus adding to their outrage...
Along the road to the airport, red banners proclaim LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST PARTY. On the tarmac, a young Vietnamese soldier wounded in fighting near the Chinese border waits, half-conscious, to be evacuated to Hanoi. His injuries are a month old. Blackened toes stick out of casts covering his feet under the stretcher blanket. He lies in the midday heat under the shade of an airplane wing, in the same valley in which another generation of Vietnamese soldiers fought and died three decades earlier...
...seize enemy troops. "If we capture them in a fight and they have no more ammunition, then they must die," said a subcomandante known as Pelón. "That shows they were trying to kill us and gave up only because they had no more shells." If a Sandinista soldier surrenders with a full clip, however, the contras conclude he does not want to hurt them and he is spared. Says Pelón: "We give them the choice of going to Honduras with us or simply going back home...