Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After half an hour, we stopped. It was very quiet. Then a soldier came in and pointed to a man at the front and said, "You." They got out, and we heard a single shot. Then another Serb came in and said to the soldier on board, "Now get two out." More shots. Then we realized it was over, there was no life for us. They started taking people by threes, and we heard machine-gun bursts along with pistol shots...
When we turned away from the Croatian border, we still thought the U.N. would meet us. Instead three dump trucks joined us. There was one van in front with Serbian military police, and on each bus was a soldier with an automatic weapon. At Skender Vakuf, they told us we were passing the front lines, so we should lie down and not look out the windows...
Perot is in and out and in again. Clinton, once a soldier in the ideological army of leftist George McGovern, fashions himself a moderate. And President Bush, once an advocate of abortion-rights, now supports a constitutional amendment criminalizing that same procedure...
John F. Kerry, senator from Massachusetts and head of the subcommittee, was in his final year as a soldier when Kissinger and Richard M. Nixon took the White House on a platform of peace...
...soldier, Kerry could never have dreamed that he would later call his boss, then thousands of miles away from the Vietnam's jungles and in the comfort of the "Vite House," into a senatorial hearing to explain the greatest, strangest irony of the war: That we had to continue the war in order...