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Armed Forces Memorial month
Armed Forces of wars past and present are honored with monuments and memorials. They are symbols to remind us Freedom is not Free, it is paid for in blood. Those who served wrote a blank check to our country payable at any cost to include the giving of...Tags: U.S. Navy, Veterans Affairs, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Six veterans plead guilty to Agent Orange benefits fraud
Six military veterans from Maryland pleaded guilty to fraud charges this week in a scheme to obtain federal military benefits and state tax breaks with faked documentation claiming they were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, according to the...
Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Rod J. Rosenstein, Veterans Affairs, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions
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Young Vietnamese Americans learning the lessons of Black April
One girl gasps as the grainy black-and-white footage rolls: Women are screaming, thrusting their babies at soldiers boarding a helicopter. In the next scene, hundreds of refugees packed in the belly of a rickety boat rock in the ocean, desperately...
Tags: Human Rights, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Wars and Interventions, Immigration, U.S. Congress
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Finally, 'China Beach' comes to DVD; I have 1 copy to share
RedEyeI still have my VHS tape recordings of the originally airings of one of my favorite TV shows, "China Beach." Now, with the 1988-'91 series finally coming to DVD, it looks like I can retire them--and my VHS player. (That's the only thing I watch with it.)...Tags: Wars and Interventions, China, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Marg Helgenberger, Music
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Review: 'Confederacy of Heretics' a delicate task
It's difficult to imagine a more delicate curatorial task than the one Todd Gannon, Ewan Branda and Andrew Zago faced in putting together "A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979." The exhibition, running through July 7 at...
Tags: Standards, Robert Venturi, Architecture, SCI-Arc, Arts
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Big Read, big issues: Tim O'Brien to discuss 'The Things They Carried' in Miami
When Tim O’Brien’s collection of Vietnam War stories, “The Things They Carried,” was published in 1990, a New York Times reviewer placed it “high up on the list of best fiction about any war.” Which must have pleased O&...
Tags: NPR, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Wars and Interventions, Miami Dade College, Coral Gables
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Drunken driver wrecks war memorial in Aberdeen
A car plowed through a Vietnam War memorial Sunday afternoon, injuring the driver and leading him to be charged with drunken driving, said an official with the Aberdeen Police Department. Thomas Harwood, 48, was taken by ambulance to Avera St. Luke'...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Jury duty and the inconvenience of being a citizen
Nothing, besides the approach of a snowstorm or a rush-hour fender-bender on the Beltway, elicits more groans from Baltimoreans than the summons to jury duty, and I'm not sure why, except that we like to bellyache about stuff. When you think about it,...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, University of the District of Columbia, Judges, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Pine, Quinto on film’s real-world parallels
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“Star Trek” has always been about more than a spaceship crew hurtling through the cosmos — over the decades, the ...... -
As 'Mad Men' moves into 1968, Matt Weiner talks history
“Mad Men” returned to AMC Sunday night with a premiere that was criticized by some for being too slow – perhaps a touch ironic, given that the episode saw Don Draper and his colleagues ringing in 1968, a year that was anything but...
Tags: Arrested Development (tv program) , Richard Speck, Malcolm X, Netflix Inc., Assassinations
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More than 200 attend gun rally in Chambersburg
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comStanding below the steps of the Franklin County Courthouse at courthouse plaza, 250 people rallied in support of their right to bear arms at Saturday’s Second Amendment Freedom Rally in Chambersburg. Some held “Don’t Tread on Me”...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Wars and Interventions, Rentals, Politics, Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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Paying respects to Vietnam veterans
Kathy Job said she can remember every detail of the day she found out her brother was killed in Vietnam. "I was in the kitchen with my mother. Our priest came to our door with another soldier," Job of Aberdeen, said. "My mom let out a scream and I came...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Human Interest, International Military Interventions, American Legion, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Apr 27, 2013
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Original site for Vietnam War (1955-1975) topic gallery.