Word: soldiering
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...speech also made me realize what the Peace Constitution really means for Japan: it means that no Japanese soldier has killed anyone since the war ended; it means that Japan cannot enter have nuclear weapons since such offensive action is forbidden under Article 9 of the Peace Constitution. It means that Japan is an effective peace-keeping nation in the midst of a region of the world recently in conflict. And it means that America should be doing everything it can to preserve this stability, rather than destroying it through a revised U.S.-Japan Security Agreement...
DIED. YEVGENI KHALDEI, 80, World War II photographer who pointedly snapped Russia's famous answer to America's iconic image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima: a lone soldier waving the Soviet standard over a devastated Berlin; in Moscow...
...implications for the military had become clear, Lautenberg was pleased. He had taken a predawn catnap in the Senate cloakroom and awakened to a beefed-up bill. "A spouse is a spouse is a spouse," he says, "and we can't excuse that kind of behavior, even for a soldier...
DIED. SCHOICHI YOKOI, 82, die-hard Japanese soldier who emerged from his jungle hideout on Guam 27 years after World War II ended; of heart failure; in Nagoya. When leaflets drifted down from U.S. planes announcing the war's end, Yokoi suspected foul play on the part of the Allies. Counting the years by the cycles of the moon and crafting clothing from tree-bark fibers, Yokoi honored his pledge never to surrender. Two hunters who stumbled upon him in 1972 passed on the news of Japan's defeat...
Finally, with regards to their claim that the picture of the soldier beating the 12-year-old boy ignores context, we ask, Under what circumstances can an armed soldier legitimately attack a young boy? However, they do raise a point which we believe is crucial to an understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: decontextualized violence often comes across in Western media as barbaric outbursts of terrorism, when in fact they are tragic reactions to the systematic violence that has been inflicted upon Palestinians from the inception of the colonial state of Israel in 1948 to the present. This foundational injustice...