Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work last week. After dusk a Marine platoon surrounded a hamlet in which V.C. had been reported hiding out, split into five squads and sat down to wait. No one spoke, no cigarettes were allowed, nor was mosquito repel lent, despite the stinging swarms-for a trained soldier can smell the chemical 50 yards away. Around 3 a.m. a drenching monsoon rain roared in from the northeast, but still not a marine moved. It lasted two hours. Finally the wan moon reappeared and picked out four men, its light gleaming from their weapons heading out of the village. The marines...
...admitted at last to his presence, along with a steady tide of mourners. One of these, Jean Cocteau, the poet, noting the neat pile of manuscripts on the mantel, ventured the thought that their composer was "continuing to live, like the ticking watch on the wrist of a dead soldier...
...weeks ago, a band of leftist students started demonstrating outside the National Palace, taunting loyalist Dominican army guards. With anger and bitterness all around, one soldier shot an 18-year-old in the back, killing him instantly. That led to a series of flash-fire fights between rebels and loyalists resulting m four dead, 14 wounded. Last week the city rumbled with bomb blasts five in all, damaging a bar popular with U.S. troops, the plant of a noisily antimilitary magazine, and a drive-in movie Death toll: another two Dominicans...
...hell, of that there can be no doubt. But there should also be no doubt that the protesting students are NOT questioning our soldier's fighting ability, nor his courage or conviction. Rather, in their haste to indicate their abhorrence and hate of war they mistakenly attack the symptoms of war (Marines arriving by train in San Francisco for embarkation to Vietnam) instead of attacking the causes of war (breakdown of diplomacy and communications; ignorance and poverty; charismatic and poor leadership; adherence to diehard, hard-line communism; desire for the better things of life which the normal and present channels...
King and Country. Slowly and silently, with infinite care the camera examines the World War I memorial at London's Hyde Park Corner. Searching out the details of the brave soldiers on the stone frieze, it leads to the words carved along one side: A ROYAL FELLOWSHIP-the camera turns the corner-OF DEATH. The scene shifts to a tangle of barbed wire, the detritus of trench warfare, the corpses of trees and, half-buried in the churned and muddy ground, the corpses of men. One of them slowly comes alive-he is a soldier lying...