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Richard Blumenthal Apologizes for Vietnam Statements
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyConnecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has formally apologized for repeatedly referring to himself as a Vietnam veteran or referencing his return from Vietnam, even though he served stateside in the Marine Reserves after receiving five deferments from joining the military. Blumenthal is the Democratic nominee to fill the Senate seat of Sen. Chris Dodd, who is retiring. "At times when I have sought to honor veterans, I have not been as clear or precise as I should have been about my service in the Marine Corps Reserves,'' Blumenthal wrote in a statement e-mailed to the Hartford ...
One Man's Solemn Mission to Recover WWII Remains
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsAt first, it seemed like a sick joke or, worse, some sort of scam. The caller from North Carolina was telling John Lenox that the wreckage of his father's plane had been located. Staff Sgt. Alvin Lenox had been dead for two weeks longer than his 66-year-old son, John, had been alive. The Army Air Force radio operator crashed with four others in a cargo plane flying a supply mission from Yantai, China, to Joraht, India, in August 1943. They went down in a treacherous mountain region known as The Hump, which swallowed about 600 U.S. planes during World War II. Yet the fellow on the phone ...
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Looking to Vietnam for Answers to Afghanistan
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFor three hours Wednesday, Barack Obama and his national security team looked bleakly in the Afghan abyss and debated whether to send as many as 40,000 additional troops to a land that was once synonymous with obscurity. The troop request number – drawn from a leaked memo by Gen. Stanley McChrystal – underscores the lasting implications of Obama's statement during the second presidential debate last October, "Part of the reason I think it's so important for us to end the war in Iraq is to be able to get more troops into Afghanistan." ...
Mr. McNamara Meets Mr. Maladroit
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe death of 93-year-old Robert McNamara – 34 years after the fall of Saigon – reminded me of my lone encounter with the defense secretary who embodied the Vietnam War during my college years. ...
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