Word: vet
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Back at Gilly's the soldiers are outraged that so far only low-level troops have been collared for the prison abuses. The banter turns to what kind of behavior is acceptable in war. One Vietnam vet at the bar recalls atrocities: "I knew guys in Vietnam with dried ears and penises hanging from their dog tags," he says. "What these guys did in Iraq was bad, and they ought to burn for it, but it's not the worst thing we've done...
Touborg said that contractors will have to vet their workers using the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) check, the same check that Harvard uses for its own employees...
...decorated Vietnam vet like Kerry, the former Nebraska Senator would add more medals to the ticket. Still, Kerrey is an outspoken independent who could have trouble staying on message. His running would revive accusations he deliberately shot civilians in Vietnam...
...incidents ... enraged the Vietnam Veterans Against the War as much as did the rumor that President Nixon had said that only 30% of their number were really Vietnam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof of service ... One vet offered his glass eye as testimony ... [The week] ended with some 700 of the veterans pausing ... in front of the Capitol and hurling at it medals won in Vietnam. Some dedicated the medals to their dead friends, some to the Vietnamese who have been killed in the war. One said quietly...
Kerry tells his campaign audiences how, as a returning Vietnam vet, he stood up to the waste and carnage and injustice of what he calls "Nixon's war." All true, except for one inconvenient fact. The man who got us into Vietnam--committing what is arguably the most egregious presidential misjudgment of the 20th century--was not Nixon. It was Kerry's political hero, John F. Kennedy: Ivy League, U.S. Navy, decorated officer whose wartime valor propelled him to Massachusetts Senator and then Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Sound familiar? So much for biography...