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...first lieutenant in the Army stationed in the Central Highlands. I used to write my wife that I was in a safe area in Viet Nam, just putting in my time What did she know about Mang Yang Pass, halfway between insanity and hell? A few weeks after I returned to the "real world," we went to a friend's wedding. A truck backfired. I reacted instinctively. My understanding wife couldn't quite comprehend what I was doing cringing in the gutter, rolled up next to a parked car on New York City's Third Avenue...
...thing straight. We were demonstrating against the paranoid politicians in Washington, B.C., who, at the wave of a red flag or a dollar sign, put our youth as sitting ducks into an impossible situation in Viet...
...honor these veterans. We also honor the youths whose consciences would not allow them to be used so outrageously. We are all casualties of the Viet Nam War. Perhaps that is why there was no parade...
...approach has a certain show-business tilt. He set out to engender new pride in the military. He ordered more prominent display of the Stars and Stripes. He insisted that the ceremony for Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez, who was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Viet Nam, be scheduled at the Pentagon, and he made the award himself. Reagan urged that rules on military uniforms be relaxed so that more servicemen would be encouraged to wear them off duty as well...
...kind of detail that used to be left to a flight leader was settled during the Viet Nam War by Lyndon Johnson in the White House...