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  • July 2008

    • Once Pals, Kerry and McCain Are Now on the Rocks

      Washington Post  |  Jul 9, 08 2:39 PM CDT

      Once Pals, Kerry and McCain Are Now on the Rocks

      (Newser) - The 2004 election cracked the once-close personal relationship between John McCain and John Kerry, the Washington Post notes, and differences over the Iraq war has left the bond between the former Navy men fractured. "The same intensity of their feelings as veterans which brought them together has pushed them apart on two big policy areas," one insider says of Iraq and national security. "They took away very different lessons." More »

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      John McCain  • Iraq war  • John Kerry  • Vietnam War  • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth  • POW/MIA

  • June 2008

    • Vietnam Stays With McCain

      Boston Globe  |  Jun 23, 08 2:35 PM CDT

      Vietnam Stays With McCain

      (Newser) - After 5 years as a POW, John McCain returned to Vietnam in 1974 and 1985, trips that inextricably linked him with the war in American minds. They also helped color the way he thinks about foreign policy and helped him learn to make amends with onetime enemies when it meant closure on MIAs. The Boston Globe looks at the candidate's evolution through the prism of that experience. More »

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      John McCain  • foreign policy  • Vietnam  • POW  • MIA  • POW/MIA  • Walter Cronkite

    • China Admits Burying US POW From Korean War

      Associated Press  |  Jun 20, 08 8:53 AM CDT

      China Admits Burying US POW From Korean War

      (Newser) - China has for the first time admitted holding an American prisoner from the Korean War on its soil, AP reports. The Vermont man, just 18 when he was captured, died in China and was buried there, officials said. China authorities, who said the prisoner was mentally ill, had previously insisted no American POWs were taken from North Korea. More »

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      China  • North Korea  • POW  • prisoner of war  • Korean War  • POW/MIA

  • May 2008

    • Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven

      Washington Post  |  May 26, 08 4:18 AM CDT

      Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven

      (Newser) - Thousands of Harleys roared past Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial yesterday in what has become a Memorial Day weekend tradition: the "iron salute" of members of national veterans organization Rolling Thunder.  It's a festival of engines, leather, denim and patriotism, reports the Washington Post . More »

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      George W. Bush  • White House  • Vietnam War  • Vietnam veteran  • Fourth of July  • POW/MIA  • Memorial Day  • Harley Davidson

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