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Vietnam War stories: 50 news summaries

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Army's Role in Iraq Turning Personal

Troops 'all but qualify for Iraqi citizenship,'
for better or worse

Apr 1, 08 11:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - After five years of war, the US military is enmeshed in virtually all aspects of Iraqi life—a common development in such engagements but one that can prove to be a double-edged sword for military efficiency, writes Lawrence Kaplan in the policy forum Bitter Lemons. "American units slowly melt... More »

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Iraq • Iraq pullout • US military • surge • tribal leaders • Vietnam War • Iraq reconstruction

Deserters Fleeing War Go North—Again

In Canada, AWOL troops join forces with Vietnam draft-dodgers

Mar 17, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq war deserters aren't crossing the Canadian border in VW buses, but they are trickling across—and connecting with Vietnam draft dodgers who made the same trek 4 decades ago. About 200 Iraq resisters have migrated north, the Washington Post reports. Some grew disillusioned in Baghdad; others went AWOL from... More »

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Iraq • Canada • soldier • Vietnam War • Iraq war • draft dodgers • conscientious objector • deserter • AWOL

 My Lai Massacre, 40 Years On  

Survivors, vets among 1,000 who gather in Vietnam to remember

Mar 16, 08 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than 1,000 people gathered in My Lai today to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the most brutal chapters in the Vietnam War, the AP reports. Forty years ago, American troops entered the small village in search of Vietcong guerrillas and, unprovoked, slaughtered more than 500 people—... More »

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Vietnam • war • massacre • Vietnam veteran • Vietnam War • anniversary • My Lai Massacre • Charlie Company

Steinem on McCain's
Vietnam Years: So What?

Feminist campaigner speaks out against militarism at Clinton event

Mar 4, 08 5:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Uber feminist Gloria Steinem downplayed John McCain's experience as a Vietnam POW in a stump speech for Hillary Clinton, and said Americans have behaved since George Washington "as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people," reports the New York Observer. Speaking of McCain's years as a... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John McCain • feminism • POW • Vietnam War • Gloria Steinem

Court Scraps Agent Orange Suit

Judge says chemical was used as a defoliant, not a weapon

Feb 22, 08 3:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Vietnamese plaintiffs who say Agent Orange caused them serious health problems ran into a judicial dead end today. A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a civil lawsuit over use of the defoliant in the Vietnam War. The suit claimed that Dow Chemical and other companies violated a ban... More »

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cancer • Vietnam War • chemical warfare • civil lawsuits • Dow Industrial • Agent Orange • dioxin • war reparations

Ubiquitous Peace Sign Turns 50

Symbol debuted at British anti-nukes rally

Feb 21, 08 2:52 PM CST
(Newser) - One of the world’s most recognizable symbols turns 50 today, the Victoria Times Colonist reports. The peace sign has become the rallying beacon for social movements from civil rights to anti-war. But textile designer Gerald Holtom designed the emblem to trumpet the fight for nuclear disarmament in England; it... More »

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protests • Vietnam War • Martin Luther King Jr. • peace sign • Gerald Holtom • Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament • civil rights movement

McCain Blasts Mailer Attacking War Record

Confident he'll win SC, dismisses claim he sold out fellow POWs

Jan 16, 08 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Citing "deceitful smear tactics" by "fringe elements," John McCain's campaign is on the offensive against a flier circulating in South Carolina attacking his war record—an echo of the attacks that derailed his 2000 candidacy. The flier, sent to some 80 newspaper editors, claims McCain betrayed his... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • veterans • South Carolina • POW • Michigan • Vietnam veteran • Vietnam War • South Carolina primary

Vietnam Vets Honored in DC

58,256 names being read this week, marking memorial wall's 25th anniversary

Nov 9, 07 7:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Veterans and loved ones are braving Washington, D.C.'s cold temps this week to honor those who fell or vanished in Vietnam, the Chicago Tribune reports. Marking the Vietnam memorial's 25th anniversary, they started reading its 58,256 names aloud this week, and plan to finish tomorrow. This is... More »

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veterans • Vietnam • Washington DC • Vietnam War

Diplomats to
Be Ordered to Serve in Iraq

Lack of volunteers spurs biggest call-up since Vietnam War

Oct 27, 07 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lacking volunteers for dozens of vacancies at the US Embassy in Baghdad, the State Department is set to order its diplomats to serve one-year postings in Iraq. Those selected for the postings will be notified Monday; if not enough take the bait, assignments will be made mandatory, on pain of ... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Green Zone • Condoleezza Rice • State Department • diplomat • Vietnam War • US Embassy in Iraq

‘Cowardice’ Made LBJ
Grow War

Schlesinger diaries depict liberal flight as prez sought heroism

Sep 29, 07 10:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Johnson’s motives for escalating the Vietnam War were “psychological and political rather than military,” wrote insider Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The former Kennedy hand documented the flight of top liberals from LBJ, even as he psychoanalyzed the president’s 1966-1967 decision to play “the war to... More »

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Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • Vietnam War • Arthur Schlesinger Jr. • Dick Goodwin • George McGovern • Hubert Humphrey • Averell Harriman

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