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“A sergeant was getting married down in Nicaragua and they needed a sergeant down there, so they changed me to Managua — which I went all over the map of Africa to look for,” he said. He figures part of it was his mind coping with the trauma. The hostile reception that greeted soldiers returning ...Read more »
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“I go the VA monthly for treatments and medication,” he said. “My wife, Dianne, is just a wonderful supporter.” He said his pain from Vietnam memories decreased as he buried them further and further in his mind, but his health trauma brought it all back. “I just really enjoyed it,” he said of his...Read more »
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"Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us." In looking back on his ...Read more »
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Izar has a solid track record in offshore hull construction and outfitting at Fene, located near Ferrol. Over the past decade, the yard has delivered FPSOs for the Gryphon, Foinaven, and Captain projects in the UK sector, the floating storage unit (FSU) for Chevron UK’s Alba development, an...Read more »
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Of the 115,000 Iowans who served in the Vietnam War, 869 were killed in action, 56 of whom were from North Iowa. Their names are inscribed on the Iowa Vietnam War Monument, which was dedicated in 1984 on state capitol grounds. "…The movement offered a heretofore unwelcomed perspective...Read more »
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Another challenge Barnhart encountered was coordinating driver’s hours, permit curfews, and parking spots for the 260 foot trailer. Except that’s not what it says. You’re making up extra words that are not there. ISIS is not al-Qaeda. Whether they associated with AQ in the past (but a...Read more »
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people are constantly doing this = recycling pre-existing arguments using different ‘data sets’ and fobbing it off as a new idea. Haugen, of Hanlontown, was a radio telephone operator in the 9th Infantry Division, 6-31st Infantry. I’ve heard lots of complaints that the construc...Read more »
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“After the third pass, we had tracers (ammunition) coming back at us,” he recalled. “You’re so busy, you don’t have a chance to think about that much, but later that night, it hit me — these guys are trying to kill me.” "Our current project lies 60 km west of Agip’s proposed offshore g...Read more »