Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harder one to please. Bob led his military units and his family by example, not endearment. "We were all terrified of my father," Susan recalls. "It was very clear that he was the head of the household, and his word was final." When he learned by mail while in Vietnam that Susan was smoking as a teenager, he wrote back and told her to stop. From then on she never even thought of sneaking a cigarette. "Newtie," as his mother calls him to this day, was the kind of "nonreg" kid, Bob would admit later, that he would have transferred...
YOUR COVER OF THE YOUNG SOLDIER with the question "Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?" was haunting. As a Vietnam veteran and Native American, I can say a triple "Hell, no." To send fine young people into a horrendous mess to die in a pool of their own blood is not to be excused. Your articles were great, but they failed to convey the worry we older soldiers have for the well-being of our younger soldier brothers and sisters. Congress and the President: Don't waste their young lives! GARY J. VACHON Peoria, Illinois...
...Hawley's great-grandfather) was placed during the early years of this century. The perceived threat was in the Philippines, and a Republican President, wielding a "big stick," wanted to ensure peace and maintain American interests. Some have called the Aguinaldo Philippine insurrection and its aftermath America's first Vietnam. I guess things really never change over the course of a century. STEVE ARMSTRONG Lincolnshire, Illinois Via E-mail...
...TIME, I received my son's draft-registration form. As I gazed at the young soldier on the cover and took in that haunting question ''Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?'' I saw my own son's face, and my mind raced back a quarter-century to the battlefields of Vietnam. As a disabled veteran, I still see the faces of my dead friends. I still feel the pain of my wounds. I suffer as tourists visit Ho Chi Minh City. Will the madness ever end? I am confident that I speak for millions when I answer the question "Is Bosnia...
...INDEED UNFORTUNATE THAT THE present Administration is committed to "selling" this action to the American people. If Clinton is committed to it, he should lead the troops on the front line and provide the military service he so ably shirked during the Vietnam War. JOHN H. HILDRETH Knoxville, Tennessee...