Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Meade was never a suitor but acted as a cover for Phillips. Anne, who inherits her father's fondness for playing games with the press, contributed to the confusion. As recently as March, Anne royally fibbed that there was no romance between her and the strapping soldier. In fact, they actually became engaged in mid-April; the official announcement was delayed until, according to protocol, Commonwealth leaders and the Archbishop of Canterbury had been duly informed...
...duration of his temporary assignment, he may become the second most powerful man in the White House. His main mission will be to reknit a staff that has been torn apart by Watergate. It is another command performance asked of a man whose desire to be a soldier has often been frustrated by his talents as an organizer and superefficient headquarters type...
Orgonon seems to have been a place where reality and the adventure fantasies of a boy could easily merge. Reich designated his son as a soldier in the Cosmic Engineers and even took him on missions. In Arizona, Peter operated a "cloudbuster," a gunlike device constructed of aluminum tubes that Reich believed could cause rain by directing the orgone in the atmosphere. Peter says it did rain; he also says he saw flying saucers (green and red disks) and even chased them with the cloudbuster...
...former-POWs throwing out season-opening baseballs and commenting on peace demonstrations and Jane Fonda movies they never saw. Survivors of distant defenses of democracy march in annual parades and grumble about respect for the flag and those that defended it. But merely for having been there, can a soldier teach any valuable lessons about war? Tim O'Brien, who has been there, says no. He can only tell war stories...
Once he had decided to endure, to go to Vietnam, there was no let up in challenges to his moral courage. O'Brien wrote of a soldier throwing a carton of milk at the head of an ancient, blind Vietnamese peasant. When asked now about his own actions, he is troubled. "I sort of wrote myself out of that scene. I just stood there and watched it happen," he says. "Looking back, I should have done something...