Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Reagan in office. But that wouldn't be true if the supply of bodies came from all segments of American society. A country would be much less likely to go to war if all of its sons or daughters were at risk, not just the poor ones. The Vietnam War, for example, probably would have ended a lot sooner if privileged kids like us weren't able to get out of it by going to college...
...sometimes teary-eyed crowd of roughly 1000 watched as the monument--two black marble triangles bearing the fifty names, maps of Vietnam, and the reminder, "we can't forget"--was unveiled in Somerville's Union Square by members of the Somerville/Cambridge Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee...
...This is like giving birth to a baby," said Joseph Leccese, a truck driver and designer of the monument. Leccese, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, said he started the design a year and a half ago and wanted something simple and elegant with "clean lines...
...military parade was followed by 15 brief speeches by both community members and military officials. Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) was scheduled to speak but sent Rep. David E. Bonior (D-Mich.) instead. Bonior is the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to Congress, said master of ceremonies Thomas J. Boyle...
Joseph A. Cozza, the president of the Memorial Committee, got the idea to build a memorial in Somerville after visiting the dedication of the highly publicized Vietnam veteran's memorial in Washington, D.C. three years...