Word: vietnam
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Anyone who has visited the Vietnam Memorial on the Mall in Washington knows the feeling of being overwhelmed, defeated, by its mass of names. There are just too many to bear...
...imagine a hundred Vietnam Memorials arrayed on the Mall. The earth would sink beneath the weight of such sorrow. Yet it would take that many Vietnam Memorials to list the names of those killed in the Holocaust. And it would still not be enough. There would still be nearly 200,000 left uncommemorated, more than have died of AIDS in America in all the years of the plague...
PERHAPS SOMETHING WAS LOST IN THE TRANSLAtion. The Russian document suggesting there were 600 more Americans in North Vietnam than were admitted by the , Vietnamese prompted General John Vessey, the President's special envoy on POWs, to fly to Hanoi to check again. "It is an authentic Russian document," he reported, but added, "we know a great deal of the information ((in it)) is inaccurate." A faded ledger provided by Vietnam -- and supported by U.S. documents -- shows far fewer POWs than the report claims. Hanoi also disputes the document's assertion that its Politburo met on a certain...
...rift between the two activists from the Vietnam antiwar movement epitomizes the ambivalence many gays felt last week as they gathered for Sunday's march in Washington. Clinton is the most important friend gays have, but not the uncompromising advocate they want. Do they settle for whatever he offers, recognizing that other quarters of government are bound to be less helpful? Or do they fight for what they want and risk alienating their vital ally...
...political life, on the other hand, has rarely been sedate. As a peacekeeper with the antiwar forces in the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, he was beaten by police and spent months on crutches. The next year he was one of four leaders of the Vietnam Moratorium, a massive national series of antiwar protests. In 1986 he devised an eight- month march by more than a thousand people across the U.S. to promote nuclear disarmament; the organization went bankrupt just as the marchers reached the Mojave Desert. Mixner did not focus on gay rights until...