Word: vet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...railroad depot was full of yapping dogs and eager drivers, who made last-minute adjustments to their birchwood sleds, dosed their teams with cod-liver oil, and administered suppositories so that the dogs would excrete before and not during the race. As the town's lone vet scurried about treating sore legs and nervous stomachs, sheriffs deputies shooed away an occasional stray Dalmation or schnauzer...
...bearded vet stopped for a moment because it took all his concentration to use his two ski poles with small runners on them and his one good leg to ease around the U-turn in the line...
...young vet's case is tragic but not unique. Says Dr. Leonard Neff, chief of psychiatry at the Veterans Administration Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, Calif.: "There are thousands of John Gabrons in this country, struggling to get their combat experience behind them, but unable. Their potential for violence is of great concern to them, and should be of even greater concern to the whole nation...
...symptoms, explains Psychiatrist Cyril Barnert of Los Angeles, occur on two levels. In milder cases-the great majority-the vet feels constantly depressed and unable to get involved in ordinary life. Looking like the classic student dropout, he hangs listlessly around street corners, sometimes in a marijuana haze, or drifts from one low-level job to another. Sometimes he plays at war; in Los Angeles vets often gather at the burned-out remains of an amusement park at Venice pier to stage mock battles, often using shields fashioned from turtle shells. In severe cases, a vet may brood for days...
...former Navy officer and Viet Nam vet. I say let those who were forced into the difficult decision to leave the U.S. as deserters or draft dodgers come back home to complete amnesty [March...