Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although he wasn't a vet, Jim's music was very popular with the troops in Vietnam...
...disappointed not to read in the Roy Rogers eulogies of his many charitable acts. During the Vietnam War, Rogers and his wife went to Vietnam to show their support for Americans fighting there as well as for the sick and wounded in troop hospitals. In Pleiku, where I was assigned, the hospital staff couldn't stop talking about how much they and the patients appreciated Rogers' coming to the highlands of Vietnam. CLARKE M. BRANDT Lieut. Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Aurora, Colo...
...Gritz, who has led a number of unofficial guerrilla missions into Vietnam in search of U.S. POWs, hopes to coax Rudolph to surrender by getting him a lawyer and putting the FBI's $1 million reward into a defense fund, the Charlotte Observer reports. He has previously helped mediate the Ruby Ridge and Montana Freemen standoffs. Federal agents searching for Rudolph don't plan to cooperate with Gritz, but they won't order him out of the area either -- after six frustrating months searching for Rudolph, they could use any help they...
...military order, after-action report, briefing paper or official military history--mentions pursuit of U.S. defectors as Tailwind's mission," Cohen said at a Pentagon briefing. "While sarin was stored in Okinawa in 1970, we found no evidence that sarin nerve gas was ever sent to or used in Vietnam or Laos." The pilots who dropped the bombs, as well as those who loaded them into the planes, said the weapons contained tear gas, the Pentagon said. Two Tailwind veterans and a pair of their commanders looked on as Cohen praised their bravery and ordered a review to ensure they...
...forum, and his message will bear fruit over the next 10 years. China is far from perfect, but we should not look down on its human-rights record without recalling the U.S.'s own version of Tiananmen Square: Kent State, where the National Guard shot at students protesting the Vietnam War. SUSAN MANN La Jolla, Calif...