mudvillegazette.com - 3/31/2009
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I'm a day late in getting this up but it is their day. Please take time to Welcome them Home.
On Monday, be sure to offer a handshake and a thank you to a Vietnam vet.
On March 24, the US House of Representatives approved House Resolution 234, which declares Monday, March 30 as “Welcome ...
Inventing Vietnam - Cambridge University Press
cambridge.org 2/19/2009 — This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating ...
Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ: Farewells
swamppolitics.com 1/15/2009 — by Mark Silva
As President George W. Bush and his writers place the final touches on 15 minutes of televisied talk that will deliver a farewell to the nation after two tumultuous terms in office, it's worth remembering the most tortured words of ...
"I am going to die well"
mudvillegazette.com 5/25/2009 — Note: This salute to those who fell in Vietnam was originally published in November, 2005, and is re-posted today in honor of Memorial Day weekend.
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Four decades ago the 1st Cavalry Division departed Ft Benning, Georgia for Vietnam. There, ...
Robert McNamera Dies Architect of Vietnam War
politicolnews.com 7/7/2009 — Robert McNamara the businessman that became the most influential Secretary of Defense died at the age of 93 years.
McNamara was the so called architect of the Vietnam War and the brainiac of the Pentagon who directly was responsible for escalating the Vietnam War that many thought was not going ...
For Christians, Vietnam war rages
washingtontimes.com 6/26/2009 — Originally published 04:45 a.m., June 26, 2009, updated 09:33 p.m., June 25, 2009 Vietnam's "hidden" war on Christianity just rumbles along, and on March 13, the communist authorities demolished one of the first Christian churches built in Vietnam's ...
Walter Cronkite and the national will
hotair.com 7/20/2009 — Walter Cronkite’s death on Friday evening will doubtless fill the weekend news programs with career retrospectives and fond tributes. [...] Read the rest »
Tomgram: William Astore, Apocalypse Then, Afghanistan Now
tomdispatch.com 10/12/2009 —
Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam ...
They Were Soldiers
julescrittenden.com 13 days ago — As the president of the United States mulls another escalation of U.S. forces in a foreign war zone, some American combat veterans are marking an anniversary from a different war and a different time, and a very different escalation.
Forty-four years ...
On Not Being a Dove
commentarymagazine.com 1/28/2009 — In the summer of 1966 on Martha's Vineyard, where the mail was rendered sticky and soft by the damp salt air, as if permeated by a melting island unreality, I received a questionnaire from some British editors asking in the manner of a book compiled, ...
Richard Cohen - The Lingo Of Vietnam
washingtonpost.com 3/17/2009 — The way President Bush whisked through Vietnam -- oh, if only we had done the same 40 years ago -- it seemed as if he was feeling an obvious parallel with the war in Iraq . His aides, who somehow lose IQ points by mere proximity to the commander in ...
Holbrooke: Afghanistan is no Vietnam —
CNN Political Ticker 3/29/2009
Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, appeared on State of the Union Sunday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Just days after President Obama announced his comprehensive plan for the next phase of the U.S. ...
First thoughts: Another whirlwind day —
First Read 4/3/2009
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Abby Livingston*** Another whirlwind day: It’s another busy day for President/World Traveler Obama. He will be in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, where he has already met with France's ...
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