Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ancients used to say, the war is not over as long as the last slain soldier remains unburied." With these words Russian President Boris Yeltsin made an effort last week to help mend the scars of the cold war. In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the 1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft -- incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated...
METAL DOG TAGS BEARING A SOLDIER'S NAME, RANK and serial number for identification date to the early part of the century, when battles were still being fought with bullets and bayonets. But combatants in today's wars are not just killed, they are sometimes obliterated, dog tags and all. So last week the Army began collecting blood and tissue samples from new recruits, part of an ambitious "genetic dog tag" program that will eventually enable pathologists to identify the smallest tissue specimens by cross-matching to genetic samples stored on file. The Pentagon aims to collect specimens from...
...Army says the need for such a system was brought home by the gulf war, which presented a number of dicey identification problems. In one case, a pound of tissue turned over by the Iraqis had to be matched against beard shavings taken from a missing soldier's electric razor. But civil libertarians fear that this might be the precursor to a national DNA screening program. The Army insists that the samples will not be tested for AIDS, drug use or anything else. In the event of a subpoena issued as part of a criminal investigation, however, the Army would...
...April 27, 1951, I stood in the window of a high school building in Milwaukee, watching (I was assured) the next President of the United States drive by through cheering crowds. The night before, in Chicago, he had addressed 55,000 people who turned out in drafty Soldier Field despite chilly weather. Before reaching Milwaukee, he had passed people, clustered all along his route, who broke into applause at the sight...
...support for MacArthur far exceeded the numbers of the minority (Republican) party in those days. MacArthur claimed to speak from above the parties -- and TIME believed him: "Soldier MacArthur was speaking his convictions, and they were tailored to no political wind." MacArthur himself said America's only hope was for the people to take back their government. "I have clearly seen that the soul of liberty is still living in the American heart. It is neither Democratic nor Republican, but American." The people sympathized with a military man done in by the politicians. He turned to the people...