Word: vietnam
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In the wake of the suicide of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Pentagon officials and lawmakers are asking whether Admiral Michael Boorda deliberately wore Vietnam combat decorations he knew he was not entitled to wear. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In the wake of the suicide of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Pentagon officials and lawmakers are asking whether Admiral Michael Boorda deliberately wore Vietnam combat decorations he knew he was not entitled to wear. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter...
Twenty-one years after the conflict ended, America continues to pay the costs of the Vietnam War. Once again, the price seems steep--and Vietnam appears to be getting the better of the U.S. According to the San Jose Mercury News, huge chunks of the $33.6 million the Pentagon has spent in the past four years to track down the 1,609 American military personnel still missing in the country have been diverted into the pockets of various Vietnamese officials, middlemen and hucksters. Among the alleged abuses: entire fleets of U.S.-owned vehicles, designated to drive investigators around, have been...
...years for them to be friends. But last Thursday, when Senator John McCain eulogized a former enemy, David Ifshin, who died at age 47 after a five-month battle with cancer, the two had long made their "peace together." McCain may be our most famous prisoner of the Vietnam War; Ifshin, the most famous protester to go to Hanoi (save Jane Fonda). Ifshin's antiwar sentiments were piped into McCain's cell repeatedly via Radio Hanoi. McCain, who was left hanging by his broken arms for hours a day, shriveled to less than 100 lbs. during his five-year imprisonment...
MISSING. WILLIAM COLBY, 76, former CIA director. Daring World War II intelligence operative, controversial overseer of Vietnam-era covert activities, Colby was an ironic choice to restore the CIA's reputation in the post-Watergate era. Hopes that he will be found alive have dimmed since the discovery of his capsized canoe a mile from his Maryland home...