Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long before Woolf wrote, for example, World War I destroyed an entire generation of European men on the battlefield -- 8.5 million of them. Woolf and her sisters did not fight in that war. Similarly, the names of more than 58,000 men are on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington -- and those of eight women...
...that occurred in the '60s have profound reverberations now. The baby boomers a quarter of a century ago assaulted the Fathers (Lyndon Johnson and the rest) and in doing so turned upside down the American idea of male power -- that is, the idea of the legitimacy of male power. Vietnam was the funeral of the myth of admirable and legitimate male power...
...issue during his presidential campaign. But speaking in the company of an audience that included Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a veteran who has for some time demanded an end to the embargo, and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam, the President was able to overcome his limited political strength in favor of a fresh and long-needed shift in national priorities...
...Whatever the Vietnam War may have done in dividing our country in the past," he said, "today our nation is one in honoring those who served." Our first "Sixties Generation" President last Thursday slammed the door on a formative period in his personal development and the development of our nation...
With Byron De La Beckwith about to live out his last days in jail and the United States about to embark on an economic relationship with Vietnam, a decade--and with it, a mindset--has passed on. It is left to us at Harvard to follow the lead of the rest of our nation, and to turn the six on our daily planners upside-down to reveal that it is, in fact, a nine...