Word: vietnamization
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...VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL...
...mission accomplished" into a punch line. But what did the challenger find himself talking about for three days? The question of what, precisely, he tossed over a fence in front of the Capitol during an antiwar protest 33 years ago. The point of contention was whether the much decorated Vietnam veteran who still carries shrapnel in his thigh threw away medals, as he told a local Washington television station in 1971, or ribbons, which is how he subsequently described them to nearly everyone else. Political hands of both parties expressed wonderment over how it was that any politician could find...
What is it for? Six months service in the Vietnam conflict...
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM GALLANTRY CROSS...
Kerry is one of the Senate's most decorated veterans--though he has far fewer medals than friend John McCain--and his record is impressive for an officer who spent just 10 months in Vietnam. Each of the medals below came with a matching ribbon. Kerry wore his ribbons when he testified before a Senate committee in 1971; the next day, joining hundreds of other vets, he lobbed them at the Capitol. --By Mitch Frank...