Viet Vet

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Viet Vet

n (dated US) → Vietnam(kriegs)veteran(in) m(f)

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Stet is sympathetic and believable, and the emotional connections he forges with the owner of the salvage yard, a gruff but caring Viet vet, and with his sister are affecting.

Rottman, S.L. Stetson

Viet Vet Cult and Legend to which Nicosia's narrative devotes ample

That's Vietnam, Jake

But the first speaker nailed it, `This is so biased to the left it is utterly unacceptable.'" Viet vet and board President Frank Delany described it as "VC/NVA good, Americans bad."

To counter the My Lai display, Frank Delany and two-tour Viet vet Al Cade created an excellent text box titled Duty, Honor And Valor.

Center rekindles Vietnam War's bitter memories: New Jersey's Vietnam Era Educational Center, opened Sept. 27, 1998, in Holmdel, is billed as a one-of-a-kind project. It serves as a glowing example of why the Vietnam War has never really ended for a certain segment of the American public. And caught in the crossfire are veterans

CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Mel and Sigourney in The Year Of Living Dangerously; VIET VET: Mel as Lt Col Hal Moore in his new saga, We Were Soldiers

TO MEL AND BACK; Mel Gibson recalls the time 20 years ago when sparks flew between him and Sigourney Weaver

"We weren't the murderers," said one Viet vet after the film.

SUBJECT TO DEBATE : War and Memory

"Where's the rest of Hollywood?" I ask Tim Robbins, who looks, in real life, much like the bemused and affable Viet vet he plays in Jacob's Ladder.

The long march

And while the pic tends to jump around from subject to subject without ever exploring any one aspect in depth, such sidetrips can still provide a service, such as author Jerry Lembcke quashing the myth of re-turning Viet vets being spat upon by antiwar activists at airports.

Sir! No Sir!

His Vietnam medals--and his early leadership of Viet Vets Against the War--strike just the right balance for the tough-dove party the Democrats are becoming.

Post-Gore Democrats. (Comment)

Waits' first album in seven years finds him on familiar gravel-voiced form telling stories of lost souls and disappointed dreams; or "pregnant women and Viet vets begging on the freeway" as in Cold Water.