From 1969 to 1971, the U.S. governmentsprayed 20 million gallonsof herbicides and defoliants includingAgent Orangeover vast areas of South Vietnam and neighboring regions during the Vietnam War.On U.S. soil, people looked tocomfort foodat home in the 1970s, whichincludedchicken potpie, potat...
presently, seems extremely high. Imagine the difference, not just if you found your own work fulfilling, but if almost everyone else did too. Products would be better and we’d buy fewer of them. And the people
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. —Larry David 83 Man is born to live, to suffe...
1975: Vietnam War—Fall of Saigon In 1975, Saigon’s government left the imperial capital city of Hue. More than 200,000 refugees subsequently fled their homes. In this image released on May 5, 1975, an American soldier watches South Vietnamese refugees aboard a U.S. Navy boat off the ...
France, always ruthless in pursuit of her own interests, was trying to claw her way back to nationhood after German occupation and humiliating surrender in Vietnam.Britain was nervous and out of place in this company, like a retired vicar who, unable to live on his pension, decides to team...
A man sits on the railing leading the cheers, and everyone listens to him. He's the boss. A hot fire burns by my shins, a bright red flare, and a guy takes smoke grenades from an olive drab jacket pocket and sets them off. The section looks like a Vietnam movie, the wind sending...
Communism’s claim to support black people in America was at its core a tactic intended to undermine a nation seen as the ideology’s main enemy as well as to build up support within the US. None of this is to say the Greensboro police should have ignored the Klan attack as the...
When your local komissar tells you that you must build an entire city overnight, you’re going to do cardboard cut outs, and tell him you did. And he is going to pass that along and not look too closely, because he too has a boss he must answer to, and there’s no forgiveness ...
Lil Bo Weep, real name Winona Brooks, was an Australian artist and social media personality. According to her father, who shared the news of her death on Facebook, she died on March 5. “She fought hard against her demons as we all did side by side next to her and picking up the ...
No Jews – no Communism No Jews – no World War I No Jews – no World War II No Jews – no Korean War No Jews = no Vietnam War No Jews – no Iraq War No Jews – no Cuban missile crisis No Jews – no mid-East Gulf wars No Jews – no forbidden prayers or forbidden teaching ...