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...November, Shamie will face Lieutenant Governor John Kerry, 40, a liberal who wrested the Democratic nomination from his ideological clone, three-term Congressman James Shannon. Kerry, a handsome and highly decorated Navy lieutenant, benefited from broad, statewide visibility and a reputation as an eloquent spokesman for Viet Nam veterans in the early...
...contrast, Carper relishes his non-U public-school background. A Viet Nam veteran, he served three terms as state treasurer before unseating Republican Congressman Tom Evans in 1982. He tools across the state in his beat-up Plymouth Horizon, listening to classical music, and boasts that he has now shaken every hand in Delaware. Carper professes not to mind that Du Pont plans to spend $300,000 more than he, insisting, "I'm used to being outspent. I overcome it by an intense, person-to-person grass-roots campaign." Carper, who supported Gold water in 1964, is a fiscal...
Jeffrey Charles Davis, 36, seemed inexorably drawn to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington. A D.C. police officer for more than 15 years, Davis is said to have once called the memorial "the ugliest thing I ever saw." Yet he would often visit it after finishing his duty, to stare at the 148 black granite slabs inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans killed or missing in the Viet Nam War. A decorated veteran, Davis had served in Viet Nam with the 101st Airborne Division when he was only 17 years old. On a bright cool morning...
...first suicide anyone could recall at the monument. To most of his friends, Davis had not seemed traumatized by Viet Nam, but some said he had returned cynical and bitter. "Who knows what he was thinking about?" said former Marine Mike Conner, one of the veterans who help stand a 24-hour volunteer watch at the memorial. "Maybe the survivor guilt...
Among the saddest victims of war are the illegitimate children left behind by the soldiers who go home at the end of a conflict. There are thousands of such offspring of U.S. military men still in Viet Nam. Many of these youngsters are outcasts, shunned by their maternal families and living at a barebones subsistence level In an effort to help solve the problem, Secretary of State George Shultz presented to Congress last week a proposal to admit 8,000 so-called Amerasian children to the U.S. over three years. "Because of their undisputed ties to our country, these children...