Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having decided that college is not for him, Anthony decides to enlist in the Army and fight in Vietnam. Once there, he is quickly joined by his friends from The Bronx. Level-headed and a bit native, Anthony is the only one cut out for the madness of that war. Soon his friends are on their way home; either dead or seriously wounded. Anthony, addicted to this to make him a man. Instead, it made it hard for him to sleep through the night. Taking a job at the butcher's, Anthony tries to straighten out his life...
...FIVE years, and I can tell you that the vast majority of law-enforcement officers are people who want to make the world a better place. For me, it was a sense of duty. Not every soldier is a murderer because of tragedies like the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Likewise, not all police officers are Mark Fuhrmans. THOMAS WASHBURN Cumming, Georgia Via E-mail...
...SHOULD BE PROTECTING INNOCENT Serb civilians just as we should protect the Bosnian Muslim civilians, no more no less. If not, the U.S. may someday be accused of crimes against humanity. Remember Vietnam. VLADISLAV A. TOMOVIC Williamsville, New York...
...camps could embrace, a State Department colleague says, "Dick is very abrasive and arrogant, but he is also a brilliant conceptualizer and tactician." Those qualities characterize Holbrooke's career both in and out of government and have often embroiled him in controversy. As a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam, Holbrooke attracted the attention of ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and later of Averell Harriman, on whose staff he served at the Paris peace talks. Says U.S. Ambassador to India Frank Wisner, who worked with Holbrooke in Vietnam: "Dick has a passion for prominent people and an uncanny knack...
...politics and economics of crises for almost two years in the White House, in this very room. I had participated in superpower summits. More to the point, as a midlevel career officer, I had been appalled at the docility of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fighting the war in Vietnam without ever pressing the political leaders to lay out clear objectives for them. Before we start talking about how many divisions, carriers and fighter wings we need, I said, we have to ask, to achieve what end? But the question was not answered before the meeting broke...