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Your typical retired Marine Corps general is busy these days dodging sand traps on the golf course or second-guessing troop maneuvers in Iraq as a cable-TV talking head. But former Brigadier General Michael Mulqueen, who controlled U.S. reconnaissance plans during the Cuban missile crisis and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, puts in up to 60 hours a week commanding a work force of 90 employees and 8,000 volunteers. His mission: providing meals to 310,000 needy people in and around Chicago each year. Mulqueen, 66, is executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, considered...
...Profits. Iraq contracts have added $5.7 billion to Halliburton's revenues since January 2003, accounting for almost all the company's growth at a time when it was struggling with $4 billion in asbestos claims. The fact is, war is one of Halliburton's specialties. The firm's comprehensive troop-support contract, called LOGCAP, and its southern Iraq oil-field-rehabilitation contract, known as Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO), require Halliburton to supply whatever the military needs, determined by a constantly shifting set of priorities...
...obvious, not safe or certain. And it was a gamble for colossal stakes. However much the Allies had gained since the worst months of 1941, Hitler might yet have survived to cut a deal that left him in charge of most of Europe. After Eisenhower watched the first troop convoys preparing to depart, he scribbled a note to himself, what he would say if the worst happened: "Our landings ... have failed ... The troops, the Air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine...
...quite a sight. There was the oldest man in the D-day invasion, 56year-old Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (son of the former President) barking orders at Utah Beach. Although he had a heart condition, Roosevelt insisted that his presence and leadership would help boost troop morale. With German artillery exploding all around him, he paraded up and down Utah Beach, ordering U.S. tanks to secure the flanks and U.S. engineers to breach eight 50-yd. lanes through beach obstacles. He refused to wear a helmet, preferring to don a knit wool hat. "We have landed in the wrong...
...Armada Allied bombers and fighters flew more than 14,000 mission on D-day, pounding German troop concentrations and strong points along the beaches...