Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political threat: "We grew up amidst the betrayals of Vietnam, Watergate, and Iran-contra. We are witness to the highest divorce rate ever . . . Let the new generation in power know we are not only watching, but participating...
Remember the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which launched the Vietnam War. It passed the U.S. Senate 88 to 2. That should have been a warning...
...Clinton spoke haltingly, seemingly moved to tears, when he talked of secretly jogging . . . to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial . . ." -- WASHINGTON TIMES...
...woman told him)) that she had voted for him even though her pilot husband had been killed in Vietnam War. Clinton, with tears in his eyes, she remembers, gave her a hug. . ." LOS ANGELES TIMES...
...most of them about scarred, damaged men on the far side of violence. The viewpoint doesn't vary much: a straight-on, wondering stare back through the wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving on this assessment. In Rome he has seen the statue...