Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lower-ranking diplomats. Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, boycotted the Red Square parade in specific protest against the killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson in March by a Soviet sentry in East Germany. But Hartman did lay a wreath at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. "This is our tribute to those who gave their lives," he said. "It is the most significant ceremony...
Quijano was a passenger on the China Airlines flight that carried Aquino home after three years of exile in the U.S. She told the court that she was looking through a window of the plane when she saw a soldier wearing a nameplate identifying him as a military policeman about three-quarters of the way down an exit stairway, "pointing a gun at the back of the head of Aquino, and at the same time, a shot was fired...
...campaign appealed to patriotism and manhood when hygiene warnings did not succeed. Brandt finds a contemporary speech spouting. "Any man with enough nerve and backbone to wear the uniform of the United States soldier is perfectly able to live a normal healthy life without intercourse throughout the war and afterwards." Accounts of almost 30 percent of military men with venereal disease convinced the Navy to remove all warship doorknobs as a preventive measure one war-time year...
BRANDT'S MOST interesting discovery was that reform in the military was not sufficient insurance against licentious conduct. Although women were seen as "more of a menace than the German soldier," and prostitution was said to come hand in hand with V.D., the soldiers could not be stopped by mere moralizing. Documents from the U.S. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board suggest that at least 15,000 prostitutes were arrested and quarantined in guarded camps surrounded by barbed wire, all in the name of making men "fit to fight...
...Even though I am a mercenary, I believe in a soldier's honour, but I'm not a blind follower of causes...I don't wave the Stars and Stripes, but I believe in American society, even through I can see its flaws...