All former secretaries of state and national security advisors who had worked for peace over the past twenty years were also invited. Row after row of marble headstones display the names of the 7,862 soldiers buried there. e the fray, or who disagreed with us politically, but that, too, was part of what our generational change meant. At the end of the month, I announced that the Veterans Administration would provide compensation to Vietnam veterans for a ser
ecutor was inevitable, and we should just go on and ask for it, so we could get back to the people’s business. Moreover, since our responsibility to participate in NATO missions was clear, he did not believe we were required to seek advance approval from Congress. I was glad Fiske was looking at it. Like the airmen at Khobar Towers, our sailors had been killed in a very different conflict from the kind they had been trained to fight.
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