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FORT MCPHERSON, Ga., (Aug. 24, 2005) - In 1975, the United States and its Armed Forces was still recovery from the post-Vietnam era. Disco music dominated the pop-culture scene, as a bright-eyed teenager from Glasgow, Mo., heads to his local Army recruiting station and raises his right hand to serve his nation. Thirty years later, the United States is engaged in a Global War on Terrorism in response to the terrorist actions of Sept. 11, 2001 and other acts of aggression around the world. Hip-hop culture is the rage in the world of music, movies and fashion, and that same...

KUWAIT CITY — In a memo sent two weeks before the fall of Baghdad, the Pentagon office charged with rebuilding Iraq urged top commanders of U.S. ground forces to protect the Iraqi National Museum and other cultural sites from looters. "Coalition forces must secure these facilities in order to prevent looting and the resulting irreparable loss of cultural treasures," says the March 26 memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times. The Pentagon's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), led by retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, sent the five-page memo to senior commanders at the Coalition...