Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overt racism still takes place at some bases, according to a report issued by the House Armed Services Committee last December. Fort Bragg itself has been linked to other violent outbursts. In October an Army sergeant opened fire on colleagues, killing one and injuring 18. In August 1993 a soldier from the post killed four people in a local restaurant. And in 1991 Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect in last April's bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma, arrived for a 21-day Green Beret selection course. His failure to qualify for the elite group apparently helped turn...
...despise each other; both despise, and are despised by, the Croats as well. They and the Muslims cooperated against the Serbs at the very beginning of the war and at the end. In the interval, they conducted horrific battles among themselves. Jasna Hadzimehmedovic recalls how she heard that her soldier fiance had been killed by Croats in the Bosnian town of Vitez. "It was on Christmas Eve" in 1993, she says. "My mother and I were cooking when the phone rang. When they told me, I felt I had aged 50 years." She was then 22. The Hague tribunal charges...
YOUR COVER OF THE YOUNG SOLDIER with the question "Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?" was haunting. As a Vietnam veteran and Native American, I can say a triple "Hell, no." To send fine young people into a horrendous mess to die in a pool of their own blood is not to be excused. Your articles were great, but they failed to convey the worry we older soldiers have for the well-being of our younger soldier brothers and sisters. Congress and the President: Don't waste their young lives! GARY J. VACHON Peoria, Illinois...
ALONG WITH THE NOV. 27 ISSUE OF TIME, I received my son's draft-registration form. As I gazed at the young soldier on the cover and took in that haunting question ''Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?'' I saw my own son's face, and my mind raced back a quarter-century to the battlefields of Vietnam. As a disabled veteran, I still see the faces of my dead friends. I still feel the pain of my wounds. I suffer as tourists visit Ho Chi Minh City. Will the madness ever end? I am confident that I speak for millions...
...well- wishers' coaxing, flattery and cajoling lured him into the momentary pleasure of grabbing the greatness "thrust" upon him. And with a militaristic strategy he used that occasion to promote the sale of his book in a nationwide tour. Otherwise, it was clear that a straight soldier and unruffled thinker of Powell's high caliber could not have kept everyone guessing up until the last moment. He must have assessed the very remote possibility of his success despite what his political soothsayers might have suggested. He knew well that the time was not yet ripe for him to jump into...