Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK - Thousands of Vietnam veterans who returned home to indifference or worse gathered yesterday in wheelchairs, military fatigues and business suits to help dedicate the city's memorial to those who fought in Southeast Asia...
Today, an estimated 20,000 veterans were getting the homecoming they never received a decade ago when the last Americans left Vietnam. A tickertape parade was planned across the Brooklyn Bridge into the "Canyon of Heroes" in Wall Street...
...second error is not quite as silly. In passing, he claims that although the German soldiers of World War II did not act on as solid a moral basis as our own troops in that conflict, their position was comparable to that of the American soldiers who fought the Vietnam War. Both groups, he says, were forced by the draft or by duty to fight "aggressive, immoral ways." This comparison is an insult to history and to the soldiers who fought in Indochina. To the soldiers of the time, North Vietnamese Communists were totalitarian aggressors who had to be stopped...
...yesterday's events marked the first time since 1966 that students forcibly prevented a visiting dignitary from leaving the site of a Harvard appearance. The last such incident, which involved then-Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and a mob of 800, was the first major event of the Vietnam protest movement at Harvard. This is some of what The Crimson reported on November...
...hood he agreed to face questions from the crowd "for five minutes" about American involvement in the Vietnam...