michaelyon-online.com - 4/10/2009
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Commentary: Fallen brothers found - and lost By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers As with so much in life and in death, there was news this week that was joyous and sad and bittersweet all at once for the small community of the Vietnam War’s band of brothers of the Ia Drang Valley. ...
latimes.com - 4/16/2009
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IF YOU THINK the growing similarity between Iraq
and Vietnam is tragic but inadvertent, you're not being...
cynical enough. During the first years of the Iraq war, any resemblance to Vietnam was the result of the Bush administration's disastrous ...
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How Republicans win if we lose in Iraq - Los Angeles Times
informationclearinghouse.info - 4/6/2009
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A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin
Luther King By 1967, King had become the country's...
most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech ...
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A Time to Break Silence: By Rev. Martin Luther King
foxnews.com - 4/8/2009
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HANOI, Vietnam -- Sen. John McCain paid a
quiet visit to the "Hanoi Hilton" prison where he...
was held for more than five years during the Vietnam War on Wednesday, making a few deadpan remarks as he made his way through dark corridors and past musty ...
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Ex-POW McCain Returns to 'Hanoi Hilton' Prison - ...
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Michael Yon: Vanished Soldiers: American Heroes Come Home
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... began almost immediately and continued for months, both as an organized and methodical search and by individual Huey pilots who flew anywhere near that route./ppFor weeks, they combed the rugged jungle hills on both sides of the road and on both sides of the mountain pass. Choppers hovered over every break in the tree cover peering down if they could see or sending crewmen rappelling down ropes to look around clearings that were not easily checked from the air./ppThey found nothing. read ...
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Vanished Soldiers: American Heroes Come Home
Commentary: Fallen brothers found - and lost
By Joseph L. Galloway
Micheal Yon Online
As with so much in life and in death, there was news this week that was joyous and sad and bittersweet all at once for the small community of the Vietnam War’s band of brothers of the Ia Drang Valley.
Early in the morning of December 28, 1965, a U.S. Army Huey helicopter, tail number 63-08808, lifted off from the huge grassy airfield at the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) base at An ...
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