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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips This Day In History clipped by: carrerinyes Clip Source: us.f555.mail.yahoo.com This Day in History, March 31 In 1889, the Eiffel Tower was dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by its designer, Gustave Eiffel, during the Universal Exhibition of Arts and Manufacturers. In 1948, the U.S. Congress passed the Marshall Aid Act, a plan to rehabilitate war-ravaged Europe. In 1954, the U.S. Air Force Academy was established at Colorado Springs, Colo. In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Chinese-occupied Tibet and was granted political asylum in India. In 1968, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek re-election and simultaneously ordered suspension of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. In 1987, the U.S. State Department ordered home all 28 remaining U.S. Marine guards at the Moscow embassy after two Marines were charged with espionage. In 1998, the U.N. Security Council voted to impose an arms embargo on Yugoslavia after unrest in the Serbian province of Kosovo turned violent. Those born on this date include: - French philosopher Rene Descartes in 1596 zum Artikel... Anzeige An American Marine clipped by: dulios clippers remarks: Its a long article, but well worth reading. I think of all my relatives whove experienced war as either combatants (those who Ive known: WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and Iraq) or as civilians (my fathers family in the "old country" - Greece). War is hell. Clip Source: www.rollingstone.com The Troubled Homecoming Of The Marlboro Marine This is the face of the war in Iraq. The mind behind it will never be the same. Before the photograph. On that day, as Miller paused for a smoke during a lull in the fighting, a photographer from The Los Angeles Times captured the battle-weary Marine with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Millers face was smeared with soot and sand and blood and war paint, none of which could camouflage his bewilderment and exhaustion. The image was soon plastered all over the news, appearing in more than 150 publications worldwide and earning him the moniker "Marlboro Man." That was then. These days, Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller spends much of his time sitting on the floor of the run-down trailer he keeps as a residence behind his fathers house in the tiny coal-mining town of Jonancy, Kentucky (population 297). He wishes someone had told him that "there may come a time when all that shit you learned, you might not be able to turn it off." Tags: war, veterans, ptsd, marines, mental health zum Artikel... The War Comes Home clipped by: ruralart clippers remarks: Simultaneously incredibly sad and wonderfully uplifting. The way the community pulled together is wonderful. Clip Source: www.nytimes.com Tracking a Marine Lost at Home PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. ? A week after Eric W. Hall disappeared into the woods of Southwest Florida, his mother stood in a parking lot overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. She had asked for volunteers. Would they come? Becky Hall?s son had experienced a flashback, fleeing a relative?s home after sensing that Iraqi insurgents had surrounded him. He was 24, a former Marine corporal from Indiana who had been medically discharged after a bomb ripped through his leg. Here, among the retirees and strip malls, he was a stranger. And yet his absence spurred a community to action. More than 50 people stepped forward that first day in February. Others came later, young and old, contributing four-wheelers, pickup trucks, boats, horses, search-and-rescue dogs, and even a small plane. ?He has these issues as a result of what we asked him to do,? Tags: military, war, afghanistan, iraq, veterans, vietnam, tampa, florida, jungle, post traumatic stress zum Artikel... Sin of Omisison: Tom Brokaw on the 60s clipped by: zizzy clippers remarks: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11251b.htm Clip Source: www.truthdig.com one reads the Vietnam War sections of Brokaw?s book with a growing sense of amazement, disbelief and, ultimately, profound sadness. For Brokaw has, incredibly, managed to compile a lengthy book about the 1960s that barely mentions the central event which created and shaped it. A reader of ?Boom!? would have no idea that U.S. leaders pursued a war that killed enormous numbers of Indochinese civilians and that this mass murder was the single most important factor prompting the various domestic convulsions we now call ?The ?60s.? Is it really possible for America to have killed hundreds of thousands of Indochinese peasants and still, 30 years later, act as if it never happened? Has Brokaw really so sabotaged his own heartfelt call to unite America by ignoring what we learned from South Africa: that true national reconciliation can occur only if hard truths are acknowledged, responsibility taken and amends made? zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de