Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that New should be discharged because he refused to carry out a lawful order from his U.S. military commanders. "The bottom line for the military is that you can not pick and chose your orders," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's a recipe for catastrophe to let soldiers pick and chose what they want to do. Some military people may agree with New's argument that U.S. soldiers should not serve under the U.N., but that's a political decision, and the military can not be a debating society. The only way it can function...
Southern apologists who lobby for the construction of a memorial to the rebel dead emphasize that, for the average southern soldier; going to war had very little to do with the momentous issues of slavery or union. Rather, it was an expression of loyalty to his state, community and family, all of which he believed to be threatened. Therefore, goes the argument, why not memorialize the Southern dead? After all, didn't they fight as heroically, if not more so, for what they believed in than those in the Union army...
With regard to the memorial of the World War II German soldier McPhearson says, "It complicates the matter and makes the argument against [memorial proponents] weaker, but I suppose you could say 'two wrongs don't make a right...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH A gung-ho former soldier is charged with the worst act of home-grown terrorism...
...nature of the NATO mission--policing long, snakelike "zones of separation" between the warring factions--means that troops will never be far out of mortar and artillery range. Any Balkan soldier who chooses to will easily be able to fire a couple of shells at them. After doing so, however, he will have to move quickly to avoid being hit by NATO's sophisticated counter-artillery fire. A senior Army planner says, "We would expect to return artillery fire at the location where it's coming from almost before the round hits the ground...