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John Kerry's First Big Protest By J. Michael Waller The first documented major antiwar protest that John Kerry attended was the Oct. 15, 1969, Moratorium march on Washington. Hanoi needed to harness the U.S. antiwar movement to make it impossible for President Richard Nixon, inaugurated earlier that year, to take the war to North Vietnam. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, then top activists on the pro-Hanoi left, later wrote that militant activists went in July to "meet Cuban and Vietnamese officials in Havana to map out strategies for the war in America, the 'other war' which would ultimately defeat the...

<p>The following accounts of Medal of Honor winners are based on the new book "Medal of Honor," by Peter Collier, published by Artisan in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.</p> <p>A devout Seventh-day Adventist, Desmond Doss wanted to serve his country but chose not to bear arms, so he joined the Army's Medical Corps. The Lynchburg, Va., native served with the 77th Division on Guam and Leyte in 1944. On Okinawa, in the late spring of 1945, his battalion was assaulting a jagged escarpment rising up 400 feet whose summit was commanded by well-entrenched Japanese forces.</p>

D.C. attorney Mark Zaid reports that the review process for Encounter's book by Wen Ho Lee whistleblower No Trulock could be coming to a close. All but one of the government agencies who've been gumming up publication--we mean reviewing the manuscript--have now finished, and will soon meet with the author. The representatives of the agencies and Trulock will try to agree on what needs to be changed or excised so that national security could be preserved (the government's argument) or the appropriate rear ends could be covered (Encounter's words, paraphrased). If they don't work it out, there's still the possibility...