Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan. They believe it was wrong. But it has also scarred those who participated in the war, especially the young, demobilized from the army. Many say they will never be themselves again. I also participated in the war and was there for 2 1/2 years. I was an older soldier who could endure the scars, but the effect on the young was different...
...President dressed in fatigues. Are you a soldier or a politician...
...Crimson will have its chance for revengeagainst Princeton in the ECAC championships thisSaturday at Soldier's Field. If Harvard can getpast the Tigers, a rematch with Brown may be onthe horizon...
...Some soldiers make immediate and tragic exits. Bill Haneke is energized by President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech calling for a new generation to bear any burden, meet any hardship. He returns from Southeast Asia minus a right leg, a left foot and an eye. Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north...
...first witness, ever again be more than stenography? Eddie Adams, Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin and Larry Burrows, among others, answered yes, as they found the war's significance in the interstitial details: the fear in a Vietnamese prisoner's eyes, the deathly immobility of a wounded U.S. soldier...