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Generals come in all varieties--loud and brash, brainy and bookish, and occasionally a little worrisome. Tommy Ray Franks is none of those: he is quick, funny, very private, ferociously hardworking and, everyone says, a rare leader of soldiers, particularly enlisted troops. He is also, at least in public, the consummate strong and silent type, the good soldier who shuns the limelight in marked contrast to some of his predecessors at Central Command. All this makes Franks, 57, ideally suited as the go-to general for the second Bush Administration. Retired Admiral Archie Clemins, who commanded the Pacific Fleet when...
...poster is one of three that the group had used to publicize its event last night. One poster juxtaposes a picture of a beer bottle with a U.S. soldier, implying a disparity between the legal drinking age and the draft...
Heilman, a former Israeli soldier, said he wants to return to the Middle East this summer to aid the peace process in the political realm...
...cadet; he had bailed her out of two infraction charges that eventually proved unfounded but could have resulted in her being expelled. So, she says, she wasn't even worried when he pulled over and locked the car doors. But, struggling now to hide her emotions like a good soldier, she sums up the moment she lost her virginity simply: "He forced himself on me. I tried to scream and fight, but of course everybody's in shape at the academy. Me against him was no fight...
...similar message underlies the two other films, “The Sound of the Violin in My Lai” and “The Story from the Corner of a Park,” which tells the story of a former Vietnamese soldier whose two children were disabled by the chemical effects of Agent Orange...