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...Australia's last living World War II VC winner takes a little longer to get around these days, and his eyes aren't good. But his white hair still has the dashing curl of the bold young soldier, and his humor is as dry as the bush in summer. "I couldn't call for morning tea or go to sleep," he says of his decision to stand up that day. After the shooting finished, his company met up with another section nearby. "Someone, I think it was Snowy, said to me, 'Did you do that?' and I said yeah...
...think I provided a way to boost everybody's confidence about the war. I was used as a symbol. They could show the war was going great because "we rescued this person." It doesn't bother me anymore. It used to. Through my book [I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, written by Rick Bragg], I have been able to set the record straight. I did what I could do and now let the record speak for itself...
...There is nothing anybody can do that can take away the nightmares." CORPORAL DUSTIN BERG, U.S. soldier sentenced last week to 18 months in prison for the killing of an Iraqi policeman. Berg, who shot himself in the stomach in an attempt to show that a gun battle had taken place, has been stripped of the Purple Heart he was awarded last year...
...Roberts co-wrote the government's brief arguing that a new law criminalizing flag burning was in fact constitutional. But as a private attorney, he successfully helped Soldier of Fortune magazine fight a suit brought by a woman charging that the magazine had been negligent in running an ad that her son-in-law had used to hire a hit man to kill her daughter. Upcoming Cases: One revolves around whether Congress can withhold funding from universities that claim they have a First Amendment right to make it hard for the military to recruit on campus because they view...
...libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White House and public about enemy troop strength, also ended with a whimper, settled with both parties claiming victory. Still, Westmoreland inspired enthusiasm among many of those he commanded. "He was the storybook soldier, South Carolina Eagle Scout, a born leader," retired General Wesley Clark told TIME. "I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon," Westmoreland once noted. "I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts...