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It is hard to picture the U.S. Army incorporating hippie ideals of peace and love into its agenda. Who would think that they would have created a specific role for long-haired free spirits? Full Article at Cornell Daily Sun
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y.—John Brown, the 19th-century abolitionist who advocated armed violence, is drawing a diverse crowd this week to study how his fight against slavery continues to play in America. Full Article at Boston Globe
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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: Samuel Chan, U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and the Korean War, looks on during the annual Veterans Day parade November 11, 2009 in New York City. View Photo »
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Vietnam War era tunes, as well as Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music.
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The Rev. Full Article at Boston Herald
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Part 1 of a Tribune investigation finds that U.S. officials have neglected a lasting problem even as the health fallout has spread. Full Article at Chicago Tribune
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Too many veterans who served our country decades ago still suffer from horrible medical problems stemming from their time in the military. Time and again, the federal government has failed to provide them with the quality care they have earned. Full Article at Albany Times-Union
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Members of the Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment stand in front of a granite monument bearing the names of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Worcester, Mass. , W... View Photo »
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Richard Holbrooke is not a farm boy, but he became sensitized to food issues when he was an adviser in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War
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find out first hand if Afghanistan is really that much different from the Nam. I think they’ll find out it’s the same old same old, fight or die! Tuesday night’s speech at West Point by President Obama went pretty much as advertised. Full Article at Berkshire Eagle Online
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When running for office, he said Afghanistan was a war he believed in. It seems he doesn't understand the lessons of Vietnam and Iraq. Further, he stated that the United States doesn't seek world domination. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle
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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: Samuel Chan, U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and the Korean War, looks on during the annual Veterans Day parade November 11, 2009 in New York City.
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Members of the Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment stand in front of a granite monument bearing the names of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Worcester, Mass. , Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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Veteran's Day parade grand marshall and actor Tony Curtis, right, is greeted by a Vietnam war veteran in New York Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009.
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Vietnam war veteran Jimmy Bacolo, of Staten Island N.Y. , waits for the start of the Veteran's Day parade in New York on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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David Slater, a Marine Corp veteran of WWII, right, and Gennery Sergeant P.J. James, a Marine Corp veteran of the Vietnam War, greet friends and well-wishers before the start of the Veterans Day Parade in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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Retired Gen. Robert Shoemaker, left, a former commander of the Army during the Vietnam War, talks with Marg Martinez, a member of the Veterans of America, as they both participate in the annual Veterans Day parade outside of Fort Hood in downtown Killeen, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le, right, talks with Vietnamese journalists before a welcome ceremony for his ship USS Lassen and another ship USS Blue Ridge at the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le is seen during interviews with journalists before a welcome ceremony for his ship USS Lassen and another ship USS Blue Ridge at the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le comes out from his ship USS Lassen, which anckored off the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le, center, solutes to Vietnamese officers during a welcome ceremony for his ship USS Lassen and another ship USS Blue Ridge at the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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U.S.Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le is seen in front of his ship USS Lassen, off the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.
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In this 1962 family photo, then South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, left, presents the Sword of Honor to Thong Ba Le, right, father of U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le in Vietnam.
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In this 1992 family photo, then President George Bush, left, congratulates midshipman Hung Ba Le, right, during the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
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Visiting South Korean president Lee Myung Bak (L) listens as Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (R) talks during their meeting in Hanoi on October 21, 2009.
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Visiting South Korean president Lee Myung Bak (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (R) during their meeting in Hanoi on October 21, 2009.
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Visiting South Korean president Lee Myung Bak (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (R) during their meeting in Hanoi on October 21, 2009.
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Capt. John Poindexter in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, after a ceremony honoring recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation.
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President Barack Obama recognizes recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during the Vietnam War, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, during a ceremony of the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, during a ceremony honoring recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation.
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President Barack Obama, flanked by members of Troop A, First Squadron, 11th Armored Combat Regiment, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, during a ceremony honoring their service with the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during...
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President Barack Obama recognizes recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during the Vietnam War, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The soldiers were assigned to Troop A, First Squadron, 11th Armored Combat Regiment.
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with retired Army Capt. John Poindexter during a ceremony honoring his unit with the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during the Vietnam War, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, in the Rose Garden ceremony of the White House in Washington.
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Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright waits in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, for the start of a ceremony where President Barack Obama recognized recipients of the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions during t...
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A U.S. military honor guard from Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command carries a box where remains are placed, to a U.S. Air Force aircraft during a repatriation ceremony at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Members of the Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment stand in front of a granite monument bearing the names of fallen soldiers from the Vietnam War during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Worcester, Mass. , Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
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Vietnam War era tunes, as well as Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music.
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Richard Holbrooke is not a farm boy, but he became sensitized to food issues when he was an adviser in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War
SOURCE: Des Moines Register -
For eight years, the United States has engaged in an almost exact political and military reenactment of the Vietnam war
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Like the Vietnam War became Mr Johnson’s war, the Afghanistan war is now Mr Obama’s war.
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They caused the largest student strike in United States history, increased recruitment for the movement against the Vietnam War and affected public opinion about the war, created a legal precedent established by the trials subsequent to the shootings and for the symbolic status the event has attained as...
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I'm taking motorcycle tour here and I’m eager to travel to Vietnam war in the past ... I'm happy to challenge this historial trail on a motorcycle after more than 30 years, and handling the rougher parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail [the route that the North Vietnamese used to travel to South Vietnam during...
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Many are veterans or descendants of veterans who served in the Royal Lao Army and ‘U.S. Secret Army’ in Laos during the Vietnam War in defense of the Kingdom of Laos and Thailand from invading divisions from North Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army from Hanoi.
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That’s what happened with the Vietnam War, which wiped out [President Lyndon Johnson's social program] the Great Society ... That’s what happened with the Korean War, which wiped out Harry Truman’s Square Deal. That’s what happened with the end of the progressive movement before the ’20s when we went in...
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That's what happened with the Vietnam War, which wiped out the Great Society ... That's what happened with the Korean War, which wiped out Harry Truman's Square Deal. That's what happened with the end of the progressive movement before the '20s when we went into World War I. In each case, the cost of th...
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I would still argue that only two of the 12 novels are what I would call political novels, A Prayer for Owen Meany because of Ronald Reagan as a character, because of the Vietnam war as an issue, and The Cider House Rules .
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From the apex of the Cold War to the collapse -- the collapse! -- of the Soviet Union. From my opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act to my part in securing the funds for building the memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. From my support to the war in Vietnam to my opposition to President George W. Bush's...
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The rejection of the war in Vietnam has now morphed into the world's concern at what is happening in Afghanistan. A period musical is once again as contemporary as today's headlines.
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The reader of a weekly magazine expects you are going to address certain obvious big things, even if you don’t cover everything, but Newsweek is hit-or-miss that way ... Sometimes Newsweek comes out of left field, like the cover on whether America could have won the Vietnam War. I think that works bette...
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Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam
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The word 'veteran' may bring to mind someone elderly, who may have served in World War I, World War II, or the Vietnam War ... But veterans today come in all sizes, shapes, colors and ages.
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one of the better professions or careers that a person can choose. I think it's a good idea to recognize veterans because many of them didn't receive a whole lot of recognition when they came home from the Vietnam War, plus it promotes the military
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The Vietnam War was lost in the United States
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When I was in the Boy Scouts, I remember I looked up to veterans of World War II, Korea and the Vietnam War
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A great message. He did a great job ... He was a POW during the Vietnam War. He talked about returning with honor and talked about the need to lean on each other, communicate with each other and that's how they were able to make it. I thought the makeup of our team would receive the message well. I just...
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From the moment the hostages were seized until they were released minutes after Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as president 444 days later ... the crisis absorbed more concentrated effort by American officials and had more extensive coverage on television and in the press than any other event sin...
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There is a lot of comparison between opposition to the Iraq war with opposition to the Vietnam war, but people tend to forget that at first there was almost no opposition to the Vietnam war
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It was the evening of Oct. 1, 1969, when I first smuggled several hundred pages of top-secret documents out of my safe at the RAND Corporation. The study contained 47 volumes, 7,000 pages. My plan was to Xerox the study and reveal the secret history of the Vietnam War to the American people.
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Those ships were to some extent very involved in the history of our country ... In World War II for the first USS Juneau, the Korean conflict for the second USS Juneau and the Vietnam War for the third Juneau.
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I would like to know why not one person or the government and the state of Texas has ever displayed a simple plaque of all Corpus Christi’s Vietnam veterans that lost their lives in the Vietnam War?
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I feel [the Tonkin Gulf Resolution] was used for justification of an unjust war in Vietnam, and I intend to use my efforts to make sure the United States never again enters an unjust war.
SOURCE: Jackson Diehl (Washington Post)
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