Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women in the U.S. armed forces. The pattern of abuse is so predictable that Shilts needs to break each story into episodes that are then staggered throughout the book. The device defers predictability and allows the author to insert repeatedly his two main points: first, that homosexuals can soldier as well as heterosexuals, and, second, that the military has always been more concerned with appearances than with reality...
...concern for his son's safety. "He'd be in grave risk," he said. "I would be very fearful that his life would be in jeopardy from his own troops." Peck seemed far less disturbed, however, by the prospect of a breakdown of military discipline so thorough that a soldier's life might be endangered by deliberate friendly fire. "I'm not saying that that's right or wrong. I'm telling you that's the way it is," he said. "Fratricide is something that exists out there...
Anyone whose homophobia prevents him from being an effective soldier does not belong in our military. As McGuire stated, "military service is a privilege and a responsibility, not a right." If soldiers cannot handle the responsibility, their privileges should be revoked. Hollie J. Moors...
There is a Serb soldier who cannot believe his own people have imprisoned him. He says he had been sent to the front lines to kill Muslims and had been very successful. When he came home he continued to kill them and, to his surprise, he was arrested. "If it is O.K. there, why not here?" he asks...
...curiosity is, of course, that Duong, unlike other critics of the Hanoi regime, has supported communist ideals and is not an expatriate. Still living in Hanoi with her children, Duong is a veteran of both the Vietnam War and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. As a volunteer soldier in the Communist Youth Brigade, she fought in the Central Highlands beginning in 1967. At the same time, Americans her age were receiving their draft notices. Her fervent support of the revolutionary effort gained her a position on the Vietnamese Communist Party, which expelled...