Articles tagged with: “Vietnam”
If Terror is the Measure, It’s Healthcare War
Since I was a little child huddled in the elementary school hallway for the bomb drills to the present day when I listen to the ...
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of ...
Doctors study link between combat and brain disease
The California neuropathologist who discovered damage in the brains of former professional football players has found similar damage in the brain of a deceased Vietnam ...
Vets: Burn pits are killing us
Combat had changed him. Yet Andrew Rounds was still the adoring son his mother had sent off to war. He was still the hard worker ...
Lafayette crosses remain as memorial to war dead
LAFAYETTE – Kyle Stadt, like many Bay Area commuters, passes by them every day – thousands of white wooden crosses that sprawl across a hillside ...
Captured U.S. soldier shown on Taliban video
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - The Taliban today released a video in which Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier captured by insurgents nearly six months ...
In Russia, foreboding about America's war in Afghanistan
MOSCOW — Thirty years ago this week, the Red Army began its invasion of Afghanistan , a move that sank the Soviet Union in a ...
Tenacious Priest Fights Colo. Nukes
GREELEY, Colo. — Five months in Weld County Jail was starting to wear thin on Father Carl Kabat's normally patient and jovial demeanor. He misses ...
The 7th Anniversary of Joe Strummer's Death
Today marks the 7th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death. I wrote the following immediately after he passed:The first time I heard of the Clash was ...
Grief: The "Gift" That NEVER Stops Giving!
Since our son-brother, Casey, was killed in Iraq, even precious and happy moments are tinged with grief. Today is such a day—it is Casey’s youngest ...
America’s New Homeless Veterans
For America's men and women returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, transitioning back to civilian life is often a struggle.The stress of multiple deployments, a ...
Activists protest troop buildup
PRINCETON BOROUGH - Susan Uscenski drove an hour and a half from Manahawkin to Princeton. A few friends told her about a vigil to protest ...
US skeptics fear Afghan mission turning into a quagmire
WASHINGTON — Skeptics reject President Barack Obama's expected decision to ramp up the Afghanistan war as a misguided bid to fix a muddled mission, arguing ...
Gen. Wesley Clark calls for exit from Afghanistan
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark -- the onetime Democratic candidate for president -- told Congress Tuesday in little-reported remarks that the United States should begin planning ...
Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo
WASHINGTON — When student Hemnecher Amen joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in ...
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