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...doubt whatsoever. The reasons have everything to do with winning the war. The enemy knows America's weakness--a general aversion to war, stemming largely from a profound concern for the individual. The enemy knows our aversion to casualties led us to withdraw not just from Vietnam but from Somalia and Beirut, where our losses were infinitely smaller...
Instead of being raised to hero status by the press and public, Lynch should have been court-martialed. By her own admission, she threw down her weapon and just prayed. This is cowardice in the face of the enemy. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I can assure you that the only heroes in the Jessica Lynch story are the troops who rescued her. DAN RAVEIA Fairfax...
...didn't have as much practice skiing as the Governor did. He was out there skiing when I was recovering from my wounds in Vietnam." WESLEY CLARK, presidential candidate, on rival Howard Dean's skiing activities after Dean got a medical deferment from the draft...
...hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American actor who has abandoned his family to work on the crew of Napalm Sunset, a Vietnam War movie being filmed in the Philippines (inspired by Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.) Like Zamora, Moody has a deep, conquistador carnality, a trait shared by almost all of the men in Dream Jungle, but Rizalina emerges from their affair happy though a little bit wary...
...black-white binary, excluding Asian American, Hispanic, Native American and other students. Students find similar limitations in East Asian studies and its emphasis on Asians in East Asia because it rarely includes the historical and contemporary experiences of people of Asian heritages in the United States. While classes on Vietnam and parts of South Asia exist, few even acknowledge Filipinos, Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong and other Southeast Asian ethnicities—whether in Asia or in America...