Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lieut. Galley or his commander, or both, will be tried and convicted and punished, because someone has to be the patsy in any war...
Nineteen years ago today, I was captain in front-line combat in Korea, with orders to shoot anything that moved after dark. We did, and we "won." On D-day in Normandy and for some time afterward, the same order applied in my outfit, and we "won" that war too. So it has always been, is now and will ever be, until some power stops war...
When I was in Viet Nam, our battalion had a young sergeant who had been first on a battle scene where he discovered half a dozen Americans hanging upside down, tied through the ankles like deer, and castrated. The V.C. had attempted to skin their "war prisoners" like we skin animals. Cuts circled their wrists, ankles and thighs from the futile attempts. Yet I do not recall any uproars about the atrocities...
...folly to think that war should be conducted with a cool head and a box score delivered every day to the public...
...ills that they report. A significant number reflect a disturbing increase in overt antiSemitism. NBC said last week that it had received more than 500 anti-Jewish letters; the New York Times reported a dozen such letters, more than it has received on any issue since the Arab-Israeli war...