Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAME MUD, SAME BLOOD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). To study the Negro soldier in Viet Nam, Newsman Frank McGee lived for nearly a month in the field with a platoon of the 101st Airborne Division...
...year-old son, despite the bandages that partially covered his face. She hung funeral wreaths, framed the telegram notifying her of his death along with a $25 money order he had mailed on the day of the battle, and slipped a watch intended for Christmas around the dead soldier's wrist. Only after the burial did Johnny Guinn come home-alive...
...ghoulish mix-up was unraveled by Guinn's uncle, William Adkins, who began to doubt his nephew's death when the family received a letter from him dated two days after he supposedly died. Adkins had the corpse exhumed; Army fingerprints showed that the dead soldier was not Guinn but a look-alike Kentuckian, Private First Class Quinn W. Tichenor, also 23 and also with the 4th Infantry. He had been killed just a quarter-mile from where Guinn was fighting...
...scale musical play. The prototype is The End, their enigmatic, 11½-minute string of visions apparently revolving around an Oedipus situation, in which Morrison portrays several roles-some behind a red mask. Last week, opening an engagement at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, they introduced The Unknown Soldier, an antiwar philippic with martial music, shouted commands, the loading click of a rifle and shots mixed in with instrumental passages...
Twenty years ago, Jarrell had a reputation as America's great war poet, because he was writing about a different set of realities with the same kind of immediacy. He wrote then too on conventional themes, but extraordinarily well--the loneliness of the individual soldier, the bursts of sudden violence. His much anthologized "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," ends, "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...