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Pity the boys who go to war; pity the men who can't. For Clell Hazard (James Caan), the Korean glory days are only medals and memories. Now it is 1968, and instead of preparing G.I.s for Viet Nam, he leads an honor guard at Arlington National Cemetery. All show, no go. But in Private First Class Jackie Willow (D.B. Sweeney), Clell can see a surrogate son and his best younger self. He knows Jackie will shine in war or go down in flames -- an epitaph for Icarus. Alas, Gardens of Stone goes down in smoke; unlike other, more delirious...
...modest and somewhat bookish Roh is one of Chun's oldest associates and few close friends. They graduated together from the Korean Military Academy in 1955, and both served with the South Korean military contingent during the war in Viet Nam. After President Park Chung Hee was assassinated by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1979, Roh's troops were instrumental in carrying out the military coup that brought Chun to power...
...Chairman John Shepard Reed from the crowd. While many of his high-powered banking colleagues must lumber along in English on their travels abroad, he can close a deal in fluent Spanish or Portuguese. A political independent in a Republican-dominated business, he once criticized U.S. policy on Viet Nam during a White House meeting in front of his banking boss and a Cabinet officer. During the Reagan years, according to another account, Reed has driven up to the same prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address in a humble white Toyota compact. Now the whiz kid once dubbed "the Brat" is steering...
...swell and become more troublesome as the week wore on. A nation that had committed itself to building an expensive 600-ship Navy began to worry whether the ships might be sitting ducks whenever they sailed into harm's way. A nation that has been unable since Viet Nam to feel truly comfortable asserting its global role began to feel gun-shy about protecting its national interests even in the strategically critical Persian Gulf. A nation that takes pride in the bravery of its fighting forces again tried to understand why servicemen were killed performing political missions in which they...
...waves from the attack on the Stark raised even more fundamental questions about what America is prepared to do. The issue of what global commitments it is willing to make has caused the U.S. to squirm ever since its disastrous involvement in Viet Nam. Each succeeding tragedy involving American lives twitches a neo-isolationist nerve. The lesson of Viet Nam, many argue, is that the U.S. should resist the urge to send troops blundering into explosive regions where they are destined to be snared in regional quarrels and nationalist conflicts. Vague, lofty notions of maintaining an American empire...