Word: vietnamize
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...championship game, which took place during the first week of the U.S. war with Iraq. I only watched fleeting moments of the news when I was in Duluth, but the pre-game moment of silence reminded me, wasn’t my father in the First Infantry headed for Vietnam when he was 21 years old? My greatest concern at the same age is the result of a hockey game. How thankful—and lucky—I am to have that luxury. How wasteful would it be for me not to enjoy it to the fullest...
Rlickman was born in Bluefield, W. Va., in 1951, to a Jewish doctor and a musician who fled Germany during World War II. One of seven children, he joined the Marine Corps after high school and served in Vietnam...
...draped from University Hall, John Harvard might never have known that his country was again at war. On only one occasion this year were the statue’s thousands of daily passers-by confronted with the kind of protests common just 35 years ago, when violence escalated in Vietnam and calls for university reform remained unanswered. Although much has changed since students risked their college draft exemptions to stop war, this year’s unnerving quiet had little to do with distaste for protest...
...Where Vietnam shook student confidence in their government, Sept. 11 taught them to distrust their own convictions. Many who might have protested war in Iraq before Sept. 11 became paralyzed by fear, haunted by the prospect that unnamed terrorist foes might find an armed ally in Baghdad. Students ignored their own misgivings until the first full day of the invasion, when 1,500 students, faculty and members of the community finally came together in the second-largest campus protest in Harvard history, larger than any during Vietnam. But that confident opposition was an exception. In the months before...
...native of Keene, New Hampshire, Lafley graduated from Hamilton College with a B.A. in History before studying at HBS. Before joining Procter and Gamble, Lafley also served in the U.S. Navy for five years as a supply officer during the Vietnam...