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Jim Bush is a 67 year old, Vietnam-era veteran, currently living in Texas. He was raised in a military family. His father received the Silver Star for directing troops while under air attack at Clark Field in the Phillipines, survived the Bataan Death March, and spent three and a half years in a Japanese POW camp. He also received the Purple Heart for wounds received while a POW. Jim served as an army photographer in Okinawa and Korea. In 1987 he traveled to the war zones of Nicaragua with a veteran's group dedicated to stopping the Contra War.
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War Poetry SHARE
For war poetry of the First World War (and information about its poets), plus poetry about Iraq, Falklands, Sierra Leone, Palestine/Israel, Holocaust and Vietnam go to: www.warpoetry.co.uk
Soldier Who Killed Handcuffed Iraqi Is Freed SHARE
NEW YORK An American soldier convicted in the fatal shooting of a handcuffed Iraqi cow herder in 2004 was freed from a military prison in Oklahoma on Friday, more than a year before his sentence was up, the Dayton Daily News reported today.
