Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Draper, 19, was killed in an ambush while leading his squad on a road sweep. King, 21, died less than a week after reaching Viet Nam. Whitmer, 21, was killed on a patrol. West, 19, was shot near Quang Nam while serving with a landing team. Moncayo, 22, was part...
Only three of Morenci's nine Marines made it back alive. But Joe Sor-relman, 21, the Navajo who had first failed the aptitude test, Leroy Cisneros, 21, a Spanish-American, and Mike Cranford, 22, an Anglo, rarely see each other now. Sorrelman moved to Phoenix, and the other...
That kind of unquestioning patriotism persists among most of Morenci's tough-minded mining families, despite the town's heavy loss. There are no protest demonstrations in Morenci, and other young men are still eager to join the services, especially the Marine Corps. The younger brother of one...
The mothers of those who died have known some doubts. "It just doesn't seem right that such a small town gave so much," says Mrs. Martin West. "We've had enough." Mrs. Julia Garcia was troubled when she asked the officer who brought her son's...
Happily complying with tradition. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott stepped into the office of his Democratic counterpart, Mike Mansfield, to telephone the President and tell him that the Senate had ended its work for the year. For six minutes, Scott was bounced among White House secretaries and operators. Senator who...