Word: trooper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same as the unlawful actions of groups of soldiers running amuck. The U.S. as a nation bears no guilt equivalent to that of Nazi Germany, though perhaps the individual soldier in the American Army who commits an atrocity should be judged more harshly than a storm trooper. All the sanctions of his state, his education, his training were brought to bear on the Nazi soldier to obey any order, including the killing of civilians; it was more difficult for him to disobey. An American butchering non-combatants must act against all he has been taught...
...list of forbidden "war crimes and related acts," including torture, looting, mutilation of enemy dead and the "killing of spies or other persons who have committed hostile acts without trial." Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which Calley is accused of violating, holds a U.S. trooper equally guilty of murder whether his victim is a Vietnamese civilian, an enemy prisoner or a fellow American...
...four Agnew children still live at home?Kim, 13, and Susan, 22. Susan is now dating Maryland State Trooper Colin Maclndoe, an old friend from Annapolis. The Agnews were always close to the state police, who were assigned to guard the Maryland Governor's mansion. One of the first dinner parties that the Vice President held in Washington was for the state troopers from the old palace guard. Noble Collison, a state cop with whom Judy Agnew used to play pool in the Governor's mansion, has joined Agnew's Washington staff...
...center of the crowd, hacking its way through the demonstrators and splitting them in half. A girl was slapped on the side of the head with a rifle and all of a sudden coke bottles, beer cans, pieces of wood, and stones flew into the phalanx of soldiers. One trooper crumpled when he caught a beer can flat in the face. The people in front started begging with those behind not to throw anything because they were the ones who took the punishment, but it happened again and again. "If one more person throws something. I'm going...
...were for sticking it out. "It's easy for you to be so brave." a girl in the front line screamed. A boy next to her echoed her sentiment, "If you're so damn sure we should stay why don't you come up and take my place. This trooper's shoes are Goddamn hard...