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Happiness is returning to the United States, where everybody's heart is full of gold the size of the Empire State Building. -Army Staff Sergeant...
...Nixon Administration's position is that veterans of all wars are being adequately cared for and that the VA program needs tightening. VA Chief Donald Johnson, a World War II infantry sergeant and past national commander of the American Legion, claims that the proposed changes are intended to create administrative efficiencies and bring benefits into line with realities. He argues, for example, that new prosthetics and the decreasing importance of jobs in manual labor have made amputations less of a disability-hence the lower payments proposed for physically handicapped veterans. The cuts, says Johnson, "just reflect our ability...
...well, that while waiting for a combat command, Herbert made powerful enemies executing his office of Inspector General. He investigated every scandal right up to its embarrassing conclusions. (One of Herbert's investigations was finally concluded last Wednesday, when the Sergeant Major of the Army pleaded guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army...
During World War II he was injured while serving near Verdun as an infantry sergeant. Captured by the Nazis, he eventually escaped from his P.O.W. camp and joined the Free French in London. Although De Gaulle named him junior minister in his first Cabinet in 1944, Mitterrand soon became a fierce critic of the general's policies...
...passive than ours." Then comes the confusion of return to a changed world. As Psychiatrist Tausend expresses it, a returning prisoner is "like a man coming out of a dark room." By way of illustration, Iris Powers, chairman of a P.O.W.-M.I.A. committee, recounts the experience of Army Sergeant John Sexton. Released by the Viet Cong in 1971, Sexton had never heard of Women's Lib, miniskirts or unisex. "When he went into a shop for some clothes and saw a girl buying from the same rack-it was a unisex shop, and she was buying pants with...