Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chris Starkmann went to Viet Nam as innocent as the narrator of Platoon. In this powerful novel, the veteran bitterly recalls the death wish of Ulysses: "Would God I, too, had died there . . . I should have had a soldier's burial and praise." Instead, the madness acquired 14 years earlier has been carried home, slowly eroding his marriage, his job and his life. A soldier is most vulnerable when he feels safest, he drunkenly repeats, and in the rough country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where people have "no possibilities, no place to go," Chris comes to believe...
...financial partnership between two men -- Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli -- that is highly unusual, if not unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked on records with Sinatra, Ross, Diamond, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos. Both men were original members of the Four Seasons, the famed rock group that next month will launch its 25th anniversary concert...
...difficulties. He had always been grateful to the U.S. for the part its Army played in helping liberate the Netherlands in World War II. Acting through an intermediary in February, the businessman (who insists on anonymity) gave the Brauers 100,000 Swiss francs -- about $60,000. Ernie, an Army veteran who fought in Holland during the war, said simply, "Thank God." Margie was more expansive. "I had accepted the fact that things would never be the same again," she said. "It's just a blessing...
...Veteran catcher Rich Gedman, who came up empty in quest of megabucks in baseball's free agent market, signed a new contract yesterday to remain with the Boston Red Sox for another two years...
...hours later Gedman became a free agent ineligible to re-sign with his former club until May 1. A six-year veteran, the left-handed slugger talked to several other clubs and turned down lesser offers from Houston and Oakland...