Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he had reached the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army, Switzler said, he never served as a captain and had never been a formal member of the U.S. Army Special Forces as claimed. While he did serve in Korea, Switzler said, he only visited Vietnam instead of serving there as claimed...
...Class of '61 was, like most, a reflection of the times. Our four years came during the second Eisenhower term and it was a time of rest. We were between Korea and Vietnam, and, like the country as a whole, it seems, floated on a quiet stream...
...Harvard that Stockman mounted the first rung on the the ladder up to his current, ridiculously well-paid position with the head gnomes of Wall Street, Salomon Brothers. In the late '60s, Stockman, like many WASPs of his time, was in hiding from the Vietnam war. A self-professed leftie, Stockman chose the Harvard Divinity School as his hideout, but he soon fell under the sway of the smell of power...
...Class of '61 entered Harvard in an era of complacency, convertible Thunderbirds and "the rebel without a cause." They emerged with a Kennedy-inspired optimism to do what they could for a country caught up in the civil rights movement and Vietnam War protests...
SHALLOW GRAVES: TWO WOMEN AND VIETNAM by Wendy Wilder...