Word: vietnam
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...Colombia and Mexico and call for peace. If the U.S. is willing to aid any country militarily, it must also be prepared to become involved in the wars recipient countries are fighting. With recent comparisons to the U.S. involvement in El Salvador in the 1980s and even to Vietnam, recognition of the role we play in these conflicts is not forthcoming...
DIED. FLOYD HASKELL, 82, former Colorado Senator who began political life as a Republican but was elected to the Senate as a Democrat in 1972 after his opposition to the Vietnam War compelled him to switch parties; in Washington...
...Early in the 1992 presidential campaign, he says that "it was simply a fluke that I wasn't called" to serve in the Vietnam War. "I was just lucky, I guess," he shrugs. Clinton also says he "never received any unusual or favorable treatment" that helped him avoid the draft...
Buffett didn't serve in Vietnam, thanks to a college deferment and a flunked physical. He and his father used to fight about his chosen occupation--J.D. wanted him to be a naval officer. "By the time he was diagnosed," he says, "we'd made our peace." In 1996 he wrote one of his finest songs, False Echoes, about J.D., a sober lyric without fancy wordplay about a man who "fades like a flare...
...veteran of Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, I thought my generation had served through trying times. However, after seeing Saving Private Ryan, I am awed and ashamed. I did not realize what my father and his generation went through to ensure our nation's freedom. If Spielberg, Tom Hanks and the excellent cast do nothing more for the rest of their lives, their epitaphs should make note of Saving Private Ryan. MICHAEL LAUGHLIN Katy, Texas...