Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consuming alcoholic beverages, coupled with an ability to handle members of the opposite sex, have combined to make Dave one of the most respected cadets in the corps," was the assessment of West Point's 1967 yearbook, The Howitzer. He earned a Purple Heart and a Silver Star in Vietnam, and was regarded as a good and affable officer. An avid hunter, Hale insisted that his troops--and their spouses--call him Dave, even when he was wearing his uniform with the pair of stars on each shoulder...
Metaphysical expressions come easily to the cerebral Lessig, who holds a master's degree in philosophy from Cambridge and often retreats for solo reading vacations to such places as Vietnam and Central America. Perhaps too easily. "Sold my soul and nothing happened" was how he chose to describe the trouble he was having installing Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a lawyer friend at Microsoft archenemy Netscape. The line was from a Jill Sobule song, a bit of pop-music whimsy from an opera fan who often wears stereo headphones while he works. It was a joke...
...gallons of the incendiary substance. The Navy vowed to proceed with its plan to recycle the napalm stored at a California base, but there was no word on the immediate fate of the Indiana-bound shipment. Sure, this is like protesting a gasoline tanker, but pressure arising from the Vietnam-era associations forced Pollution Control Industries to back out of the deal. "It may be a terror weapon, but it's no more dangerous than gasoline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's flammable, but not explosive." While PCI had planned to turn the napalm into fuel for cement...
...Communists in Vietnam launch the Tet Offensive on the South...
...Vietnam reach a peace accord...