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The most profound discovery for many veterans has been the apparent lack of resentment by the Vietnamese for the destruction inflicted by the United States. Given the deep divisions the war caused in America, veterans have been impressed by how quickly the Vietnamese seem to have put it behin...
Living among a population of sympathetic veterans, who knew the amount of time that Slim had spent at the front and among the troops, Slim was already in the right place to obtain a due respect. Then his memoir became a best seller. Often compared to that of Ulysses S. Grant, Slim's...
De Niro, as is his custom, had done meticulous research for the project, speaking to a number of veterans. Cimino gave him a wallet with the actor’s picture and his character’s name on a driver’s license along with family photos that belonged to a real veteran. According to Walken, ...
The original Rambo movie wasn’t necessarily deep, but it did remind us that soldiers like Rambo carried hidden wounds of war; it also highlighted a societal suspicion, whether just or unjust, of military veterans. The sheriff in “First Blood” has no respect for Rambo as a military “hero...
I am about to get one of those RSV shots at the VA Hospital of Philadelphia to prevent any lung infection, and I wanted to share my enthusiasm for all the work the Veterans Administration has provided me most of my adult life. It started a month after exiting the Vietnam Waraliveand re...
The commission is a risk for the orchestra. If handled insensitively, the hourlong symphonic/chorale work--the most substantial music commission in Orange County history--”could wind up offending everyone” from veterans to refugees, notes Louis G. Spisto, the orchestra’s executive director. ...
though it is true that the nature of the political regime in Vietnam precluded a wider survey. Baker and Terry's veterans are mainly from the lower ranks of the US military and thus provide a predominantly 'grunts'-eye' view of the war. The other accounts provide a much greater range of...
Brothers-in-Arm: All Veterans united – having a special bond between them Brown side-out:desert camouflage pattern. Bulkhead: wall. By-the-numbers:in sequence. Cannon cockers:artillerymen. Carry on!:resume what you were doing; as you were. ...
his reticence is not unusual for the generation that served on the front lines of a war that the country never really embraced. many of the veterans i spoke with for this story said they’d avoided talking about vietnam until recently. joel burgos, who served as a corporal with mueller, ...