Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANTHONY HERBERT is one old soldier who simply is not going to fade away. His stubborn refusal to cover up war atrocities in Vietnam strictly followed Army regulations. He tried the proper channels and found them closed. When he tried a bit too hard, he was suddenly relieved of his combat command and assigned to a degrading desk job in Georgia, a job only recently vacated by Captain Ernest Medina, who had been hanging there in post-My Lai limbo. After spending his personal savings of $8,000 and going $40,000 into debt trying to gain justice within...
...Dick Cavett Show both before and after his retirement have gained him a devoted following. He has continued gathering sworn statements to support his personal case while criss-crossing the country to appear on TV and to be interviewed by journalists, keeping the heat on the Army. Soldier is his latest, boldest effort...
...BOOK traces the super-soldier in the making. Born in a grim Pennsylvania coal town in 1930, he watched his father, his uncles and his brothers march off to the mines and the war. Both took their tolls, but early in life Herbert decided he wanted to be a soldier...
...butterfly. Maybe you should get married. The enemy is very barbarous...This terrible war makes so many strange thoughts race through my head. I would like to jump straight up for thousands of miles to get away from here, from this killing...But it is the duty of a soldier to die for his country...There is no choice...
...point is that such penalties may no longer be imposed arbitrarily. The right to a hearing now extends to many areas of contact between citizen and officialdom. A man's driving license may not be suspended without a hearing, nor may a soldier's pay be docked by administrative fiat. Environmentalists use due process as one way to block all sorts of construction pending a hearing. A Florida federal court has ruled that no prisoner may be put in solitary without a hearing. Difficult children and the mentally ill are winning the right to dispute efforts to institutionalize...