Word: vietnamization
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General George W. Casey, chief of staff of the United States Army and another speaker at yesterday’s event, noted that his father’s name is on one of the church walls, honoring him for his military service in the Vietnam...
...times and arbitrarily chose one of the four by placing a handful of white roses upon its top. The coffin lies in a tomb adorned with the phrase, "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." In subsequent wars - including World War II, Korea and Vietnam - a solitary unidentified soldier was selected to be honored with an Arlington burial. Other nations have also adopted the ceremony. In Canada, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was added to the National War Memorial in Ottawa in 2000, when the casket of a Canadian soldier from World...
TUESDAY Screening of “Don’t Burn It” Northwest Labs B103, 7:30 p.m. Presented by the Harvard Vietnamese Association, this documentary is about a female Vietnamese doctor whose diaries survived the Vietnam War. The film’s director will lead a discussion afterwards...
...Washington, backers of McChrystal and his manpower-intensive counterinsurgency strategy say delaying the dispatch of reinforcements endangers the mission, but those who are more skeptical of the military's ability to turn the situation around praise Obama's methodical approach, in hopes it will prevent Afghanistan from becoming another Vietnam. (Watch a slideshow of the war in Afghanistan...
...difficult for the government to respect the liberties of one narrow group while restricting them for a broader group." Democratic U.S. Representative William Delahunt of Massachusetts, who introduced the new travel-to-Cuba bill in the House, where it now has 180 co-sponsors, agrees: "Anyone can go to Vietnam, Iran or North Korea," he says. "Travel is in and of itself an American right; it is not about Cuba-U.S. policy." (Watch a video about the politics of young Cuban Americans...