Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the Republican Party will nominate its presidential candidate about a year from now, the crowd is instantly on its feet as his presence is announced and he bounds down to the podium. He speaks for 50 minutes, without notes, taking the crowd through the cold war, through Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Operation Desert Storm and the occupation of Haiti. Powell, 58, tells moving tales of his upbringing in Harlem and the South Bronx, of sitting in the Hall of St. Catherine in the Kremlin, where he heard Gorbachev declare that the cold war was over...
...everyday heroes of the armed forces who have fought to preserve the freedoms many baby boomers and Generation Xers take for granted. Somehow Memorial Day and Veterans Day seem to have woefully little significance to the average American today. We should seek out World War II, Korean War or Vietnam-era veterans. They have their own incredible stories of survival and valor to tell. Ann V. Lombardi Atlanta...
...from his ordeal. You have pushed him into playing the role of hero, but deep inside he realizes he is not one and is being used. We have lost perspective on what a true hero is. We have many of them, quite a few unrecognized -- especially our veterans from Vietnam. Peter Bruchhausen New York City...
When he ended a19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnamin February 1994,Clinton had said diplomatic recognition would have to await a "full and final accounting" of the then 2,238 Americans listed as missing. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns today declined to say whether Vietnam had provided that information, but cited "an increased level of performance...
...once lavished upon Douglas MacArthur. Navy pilot John McCain, on the other hand, survived nearly six brutal years in Viet Cong captivity and once spat in the faces of startled Vietnamese dignitaries. McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME's Lance Morrowfinds a "tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound cultural divide." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...