Tag: Vietnam
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The war prisoner card
The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain in recent weeks has brandished his stint as a war prisoner every time anyone deigned to criticize the good senator. The inimitable Maureen Dowd offered a catalog: So it’s hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding his credit limit on the equivalent of…
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After 27 years, man retires from job as keeper of Lady Liberty’s flame By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, September 26, 1999 Over the years, Charlie DeLeo figures, he must have climbed the iron girders through the upraised arm of the Statue of Liberty to the torch more than 2,500 times. “I knew it was time to leave because my legs gave out,” he conceded one day last week. Thursday was DeLeo’s final…