Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the same musicians who fought the establishment in the sixties were playing before it Saturday, singing the same songs supporting civil rights and environmentalism, opposing Vietnam and imperialism...
...clapped along to the music of the stars and laughed at their jokes throughout the night, but sat silently as Kerry's military service in Vietnam was praised...
...times are unnecessary. Shattering events speak for themselves, as the witness literature of the 20th century reminds us again and again. But even though The Living and the Dead fails to levitate McNamara and his Pentagon, it touches a heavy truth: Americans did not have to die in Vietnam. The U.S. lost the war, and today the region is overrun by venture capitalists...
...MILES, 52; ALEXANDRIA, VA.; Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation...
Miles, who lost both legs in a mortar explosion in Vietnam in 1969, directs a program that builds prostheses and wheelchairs for amputees in Cambodia, many of them victims of land mines. "Amputees are thought to be quite valueless by Cambodian society," he says. "Giving them a limb is a great thing. Even greater is giving them an opportunity to learn a trade and support their families...