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...three generations of servicemen in your family; what do you think can be passed on? AS: I didn’t listen to the lesson my father tried to teach me, which was to not join the military…my father saw, as most men who served in Vietnam saw, rather brutal and heinous things and wisely, he didn’t want his sons to see the same things. So I failed to listen to lessons that could have been taught to me. What I’ve done with “Jarhead” is simply...
...commission: design a museum devoted to the Holocaust that is also a fitting memorial to its victims -- and make it beautiful and decorous, and put it on the Mall in Washington, which has heretofore been reserved for stone commemorations of American goodness (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln) and American tragedy (Vietnam). And it's hard to imagine a more successful job of it than that managed by architect Freed, a partner of I.M. Pei's. With its exhibits designed by Ralph Appelbaum, Freed's museum is neither a pious, too-easy-to-take abstraction nor a meretriciously Disneyesque Auschwitz-land; rather...
Trading with the Former Enemy / Almost two decades after the war ended, President Clinton will finally and fully lift the U.S. trade embargo with Vietnam in the next few weeks, say those familiar with his plans. Meanwhile, Ross Perot hopes to fight to keep the embargo in place, and recently held a strategy summit to plan his campaign. In attendance were the leaders of two major groups of MIA/POW relatives, as well as Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire...
...Every time Walter gives any reference to Vietnam...
Other countries watching these changes have approached Darkoh, asking him to take on their cases too, and he has responded by recruiting two partners and founding BroadReach Healthcare, a private company that is setting up HIV programs in South Africa, Ethiopia, Haiti and Vietnam. In those places too, Darkoh makes liberal use of churches and existing AIDS advocacy groups to get treatment to the largest number of people possible. In South Africa, he added an online medical database that can monitor remotely the health of rural patients and assist hands-on providers in the field...