Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward Staten Island. Clouds of canvas blossomed in the lower harbor -more frigates and transports (130 vessels carrying 9,300 troops) than anyone in the Colonies had ever before seen assembled. When at last the fleet was anchored and its sails were struck, the bare masts reminded one Continental soldier of a "wood of pine trees trimmed." Noted Private Daniel McCurtin of Maryland: "I thought all London was afloat...
Your review of John Ehrlichman's novel, The Company [May 31], instigated the following speculation. If other historical miscreants had written novels based on their experiences, American literature would have been enriched by the following: a psychological study of treason by Benedict Arnold, detailing how a simple soldier was pressured by society to become a turncoat: a thriller by John Wilkes Booth showing how he was really a misunderstood hero who had been seduced into crime by evil Yankee villainy; a political novel by Jefferson Davis, describing the daily life and irritations of a fictional President...
...helping to execute 13 other mercenaries who refused to join a firing squad. He said that Callan "told me that if I didn't do it I'd be joining the victims." McKenzie's defense was directly challenged by one prosecution witness, a former F.N.L.A. soldier, who testified that both Callan and McKenzie had forced a group of Roberto's troops to strip naked. The witness claimed that Callan said, "When I count one, two, three−run"−and that both the colonel and McKenzie had opened fire on the fleeing men. "Lying bastard," growled...
Decadence, however, has its points--flight from gesundheit is as easy as a trip down Soldier's Field Road to Sammy White's for tenpin or candlepin bowling. The best of all, if you want to travel and have a car, is Boston Bowl down the Southeast expressway--open 24 hours and, we're told, something out of a George V. Higgins' novel...
...BLACK SOLDIER who was in the trench next to Michael when he was killed wrote to the Mullens and gave them insight into their son's character. "I was the only Black in our squad," Private Willard Polk from Detroit wrote, "and I can honestly say I heard the word Nigger enough to last me a lifetime. You see, I could talk with Michael, he didn't care if you was Black or White. He was a good guy and we both had a great deal of respect for each other...