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...that Clark would have to leave the post early to accommodate the Pentagon's arcane promotion timetable. "We approved a succession, not an execution," Berger recalls. Clark has described that day as one of the two worst of his life, the other being the day he was wounded in Vietnam...
DIED. PAUL CONKLIN, 74, the Peace Corps's first official photographer, whose famous shot of a Vietnam War protester placing a daisy in the barrel of a National Guardsman's gun crystallized the antiwar sentiments of a generation; of cancer; in Port Townsend, Wash...
...support for the U.S. following 9/11 turn into overwhelming contempt and hostility, due primarily to George Bush. He has damaged the U.S. more profoundly than 100 Osama Bin Ladens ever could. We have lost the world's hearts and minds because Bush has neither. How can anyone forget Vietnam? D. Childs Thailand...
...show her famed decorated shoes: Iowa’s pig and corn pair, Arizona’s Diamondback snake wrapped around her calves. Heads move in quarter turns, and smiles remain frozen wide for the entire four mile stretch of the Boardwalk. Between the queens are South Jersey Vietnam veterans, wary police officers circling on bikes, the trucks of local businesses, and something preternaturally perky called “The Miss America Bike Team...
...Truong. He's finally figured out the gears on the Minsk and he's grinning as he passes us all. He is still wearing the helmet. But in my mind's eye, I picture his combover flying triumphantly in the wind, coasting down the road into Vietnam's uncertain future...