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He who flees will fight again. -- Tertullian |
"Here and Now" by: phuloi - Vietnam(87 total words in this text)(4568 Reads)  Alone in this wonderland diverse and vast Listening and searching for what's wrong What has become of the three decades past A teenaged warrior oh so young so naive so full of hope Brothers in bags and boxes of tin Whoa! I`m catholic this is a sin Come years pennance booze and dope Now his song this bright sunny morn` resounds of peace so sweetly again Visions of rebirth await to be born `cause here is now and there was then |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
