Word: vietnam
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This was not the first time Alma and the family had wrestled with hard choices about service and sacrifice. "She has been down this road many times before," Michael says. "So has the family. When I was born, the man was in Vietnam. I met him when I was almost one year old. Four and a half years later he went back. Not knowing whether we're going to hear any day that he was never coming back--that's a real aspect of military family life. So how we went about this decision was unique, but not foreign...
...Campaign veterans observe that deciding to run for President is fundamentally an irrational act. Colin Powell, for all his candor and appealing humanity, has never been given to irrational acts. He decided to marry Alma only when she threatened to break up with him as he was heading for Vietnam. And so he went about weighing the White House bid very carefully. One of Powell's 13 Rules is "Check small things." He reviewed every pro and con, every poll, talked to a wide circle of friends and advisers. None of those details could ignite a fire in his belly...
BORN. To OLIVER STONE, 49, Vietnam veteran/conspiracy buff/filmmaker, and his wife CHONG SON CHONG, 36, a model: a girl, Tara; in Santa Monica, California...
...Pentagon told Congress Tuesday that at least 567 of the 2,170 MIA cases still on the books from the Vietnam War should be considered hopeless. Though the Defense Department has previously acknowledged that some cases can never be resolved, this is the first time a specific number has emerged. The finding "will no doubt fan the flames of conspiracy theories embraced by a fervent minority that seeks to keep the MIA issue alive," says TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson. "We should bear in mind, however, that there are many more people unaccounted for from the Korean War and World...
...three, particularly Halberstam, won fame as pioneering antiwar critics after their Vietnam stints were over. But, says Prochnau, "the idea that this early group carried with them an antimilitary bent, polluting a generation of reporters, is one of the enduring myths of the war." The author quotes Sheehan: "We all believed in the American cause." Halberstam sent a message to James Reston of the Times: "I am impressed by what a bold and difficult thing we have undertaken here ... we are going up against the best revolutionaries of our time on their home ground in a type of war which...