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...m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left the forest strung with the sad confetti of broken lives: blankets, clothes and magazines. Said one Vietnam vet as he surveyed the site: "This looks like Hamburger Hill...
...VET WATCH...
...from junior high cafeterias to white-shoe law firms, "Excuuuse me" had been replaced by "You look maaahvelous." He also struck gold with Willie, the nerdy messenger with a knack for misfortune, who wails in a high voice, "I hate when that happens," and with Ricky, the hapless Vietnam vet who never escapes the neighborhood, for whom everything is "unbelieeevable...
Then the questions will come--from a highly objective group of journalists chosen from a list approved in advance by both campaigns. (Big Ears reentered too late to help vet his questioners. That's part of the problem with politics in America, he would say. If it needs to be done, just do it. Don't fuss with all these committees.) The gruff television anchor/moderator will remind the men of their preapproved time limits and then let them loose in the first round of the battle of the briefing books...
...humans, though, war-related pollution may have been less benign. In response to complaints by gulf vets of mysterious ailments following their tours, the Department of Veterans Affairs will open environmental medicine referral centers in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington. There is a chance these illnesses are pollution related -- at least one vet had elevated levels of hydrocarbons in his blood -- and in the aftermath of the VA's bitter fight with Vietnam veterans over the health effects of Agent Orange, the agency wants to monitor the situation closely...