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  • The state-of-the-art Russian-built oxygen system used by Hall consisted of a stiff plastic oxygen mask of the sort worn by MiG fighter pilots during the Vietnam War, connected via a rubber hose and a crude regulator to an orange steel and Kevlar gas canister.†   (source)
  • It was a workhorse in the Vietnam War, where grunts called it "the Pig" and occasionally cursed over the hot barrel, which required an asbestos glove to change after firing a few hundred rounds—not particularly convenient in combat.†   (source)
  • In the First US-Vietnam War they made love in the aftermath of an ambush during the darkness and terror of a night patrol.†   (source)
  • Although the violence of the Vietnam War scenes may turn some readers off, many find themselves totally engrossed by something they initially figured would just be gross.†   (source)
  • When Trogdon first came to work at Harrison, the Vietnam war was at its peak, and angry battles raged between long-haired students and kids whose fathers were in the military.†   (source)
  • At age 16, I participated in the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War — the so-called East L.A. riot.†   (source)
  • Murphy, my participation inthe Vietnam War makes me sad.†   (source)
  • Sniffing "hippie" and "peacenik," even though the Vietnam War was over and it was supposed to be OK again to like peace, the kids would make fun of Miss Edmunds' lack of lipstick or the cut of her jeans.†   (source)
  • Crime was up, along with anger, hatred and resentment, and the sacrifice of local blood in the disastrous Vietnam War further split the city and the nation.†   (source)
  • They would find three minor busts dating back to the Vietnam war protests, one each for the years 1968-1970.†   (source)
  • During the Vietnam War, he was a conscientious objector, and there is still something of the '60s hippie about him, like the Mao cap he sometimes wears over his braided yarmulke.†   (source)
  • A Phantom pilot during the Vietnam War, he had written a book, Paddystrikes, on the conduct of the air campaigns.†   (source)
  • The civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements may have been the last such major efforts in the United States that were overwhelmingly male in their top ranks.†   (source)
  • Rudy also served as chief of 10th Platoon in the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • Goins had been an attack helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War and infused his program with a deep sense of morality.†   (source)
  • About her own work as a poet, about her early marriage, her love of Ireland, her involvement in Vietnam War protests, her slow path toward becoming a poet.†   (source)
  • My adolescence wasn't infused with the civil rights struggle, or the sexual revolution, or the Vietnam War, but with their aftermath.†   (source)
  • Later, I went to The Wall, the Vietnam War Memorial, and saw his name.†   (source)
  • The original Jason Bourne was garbage, a paranoid drifter from Tasmania who found his way into the Vietnam war as part of an operation no one wants to acknowledge even today.†   (source)
  • Lyndon Johnson inherited no small amount of unfinished business from the Kennedy administration, most notably the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • During the Vietnam War, when winning the "hearts and minds" of Vietnamese was the stated objective, Johnson would say, not so privately, "If I got 'em by the short 'n' curlies, the hearts and minds'll folia."†   (source)
  • They were the only ones who did not laugh at our uniforms on road trips, did not call cadence as we walked to the locker room, and did not blameus for every death in the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • "You mean the Vietnam War?" she says.†   (source)
  • This was in the period after the Vietnam War, when the young people weren't so quick anymore to denounce those who fought, but began to consider the grim and terrible price all involved must have paid.†   (source)
  • She insisted on natural childbirth, breast-fed her babies in public, served her family wheat germ and home-brewed yogurt, marched against the Vietnam War with her youngest astride her hip, sent her children to public schools.†   (source)
  • The Vietnam War was raging, and I wasn't sure why my brother Si had been sent to Southeast Asia to fight in some country we'd never heard of.†   (source)
  • I could do nothing but jump on top of a nearby car, since trying to stop this fight would be like trying to stop the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • During the Vietnam War he was a clerk for the U.S. Army headquarters outside Saigon.†   (source)
  • SEALs have a history of working with the Australian SAS that goes back to the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • Since the Vietnam War, immigrants with green cards had been permitted to enlist.†   (source)
  • Born into a military family, Mullane was a Navy aviator during the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • I'm too curious to be scared, and I'd like to know more about how a black kid growing up in the sixties—when the civil rights movement and Vietnam War divided the country and cities like Cleveland were on fire—beat the odds and ended up in Juilliard's classical music program.†   (source)
  • And almost as many Americans came to Canada during the Vietnam War; I was one of them—one who stayed.†   (source)
  • I have a lot of respect for Mr. Couch's service during the Vietnam War, where he served with Navy Underwater Demolition and SEAL Teams.†   (source)
  • He was an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam war, one of the two people from Colorado to earn a place on President Nixon's "enemies list."†   (source)
  • While the rate declined in the 1990s as the shadows cast by the Vietnam War began to recede, it has picked up again as a result of the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • And the visual accompaniment is a mystifying blend of contemporary, carnal encounters with unidentified young boys intercut with black-and-white, documentary footage from the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • We liked the M79—the standalone version that was first used during the Vietnam War—because it had sights, making it a bit easier to aim and hit what you wanted.†   (source)
  • Carlos Norman Hathcock II, the most famous member of the sniping profession, a true legend and a man whom I look up to, tallied ninety-three confirmed kills during his three years of tours in the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • Here is the first sentence of his very fine book: "One of the great tragedies of the Vietnam war is that although American armed forces defeated the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in every major battle, the United States still suffered the greatest defeat in its history."†   (source)
  • That was in January of '68; "Tet" is a traditional Vietnamese holiday—the equivalent of our Christmas and New Year's—and it was usual, during the Vietnam War, to observe a cease-fire for the holiday season.†   (source)
  • Because of the medal, because the story of Owen's heroism was in all the New Hampshire newspapers, that oaf—the Rev. Dudley Wiggin—wanted Owen to have an Episcopalian service; Rector Wiggin, who was a virulent supporter of the Vietnam War, wanted to perform Owen's funeral in Christ Church.†   (source)
  • Owen would have respected a book I read only two years ago: Vietnam War Almanac, by Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr. Colonel Summers is a combat infantry veteran of Korea and Vietnam; he doesn't beat around the bush, as we used to say in Gravesend.†   (source)
  • Owen used to say that the most disturbing thing about the antiwar movement—against the Vietnam War—was that he suspected self-interest motivated many of the protesters; he thought that if the issue of many of the protesters being drafted was removed from the issue of the war, there would be very little protest at all.†   (source)
  • It was a clandestine outgrowth of the search-and-destroy concept, designed to function behind enemy lines during the Vietnam war.†   (source)
  • Jason Bourne — the original Jason Bourne — was a convicted murderer, a fugitive whose life ended with a bullet in his head in a place called Tarn Quan during the last months of the Vietnam war.†   (source)
  • Built towards the end of the Vietnam War, she had first seen service clearing mines off Haiphong harbor.†   (source)
  • As far as I could tell, you were an apolitical Annapolis admiral who ran naval intelligence and who just happened to work with an FMF marine colonel during the Vietnam War who became president.†   (source)
  • KIM PHUC is best known as "the girl in the picture," the provocative photo of a Vietnam War napalm attack.†   (source)
  • He remembered a study conducted during the Vietnam War in which carrier pilots had been fitted with portable electrocardiographs to monitor stress, and it had surprised a lot of people that the most stressful time for carrier pilots wasn't while they were being shot at—it was while they were landing, particularly at night.†   (source)
  • He had the shaggy appearance of a hippie, a look he cultivated after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • "You know, there was a time when that was okay," Goins said, thinking back to World War Two and the Vietnam War, when Canadians were allowed to join the U.S. military.†   (source)
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