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| Lyndon Baines Johnson 36th U.S. President (1963–69) |
Today along New York State’s Erie Canal, flags fly at half-staff.
I asked the main staffer why the flags were flying at half-staff.
He told me that usually when a soldier dies in Afghanistan, someone (he did not know who nor did he know the name of the dead soldier) orders flags flown at half-staff.
He told me that usually when a soldier dies in Afghanistan, someone (he did not know who nor did he know the name of the dead soldier) orders flags flown at half-staff.
By Carolyn Bennett with news item edited for TIN
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| Afghanistan-Pakistan-India |
The United Nations reports violence
in Afghanistan up nearly 40 percent this year over 2010, averaging 2,108
incidents a month in the first eight months of 2011.
Hey, hey, LBJ!
“The north of Afghanistan, dominated by ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks, has
traditionally been more secure than the south and east,” Radio Netherlands Worldwide
reported this morning, “but an increase in attacks has raised fears about
stability.”
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| Afghanistan-Pakistan-Arabian Sea India-Myanmar-China |
Over the weekend (Saturday), the first suicide attack since 2001 occurred
in the northern and Tajik-dominated Panjshir province, an area said to be bitterly
opposed to the Taliban. In the attack, two men died at a U.S.-run development
base.
In the west on Saturday, a Taliban ambush left five Afghan soldiers dead
and three others wounded. Another soldier was reportedly missing after the
attack in the Bakwa district of Farah province.
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| Arabian Sea-Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan |
Today a child caught in the U.S.-led war on Afghanistan died. In the
increasingly volatile north, a suicide bomb exploded next to a car carrying the
National Directorate of Security (NDS). The provincial chief of NDS and six
others suffered wounds. A child died.
A not-so-old, “Same Ole” story of brutally entrenched Washington
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| Myanmar-Vietnam-China |
“As his popularity sank to new lows in 1967,” reads a Britannica
article, [President Lyndon Baines] Johnson was confronted by demonstrations
almost everywhere he went. It pained him to hear protesters, especially
students—whom he thought would venerate him for his progressive social
agenda—chanting, ‘Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?’
“To avoid the demonstrations, he eventually restricted his travels,
becoming a virtual ‘prisoner’ in the White House.”
Sources and notes
“Attack in north Afghanistan targets intel chief,” October 17, 2011, http://m.rnw.nl/english/node/82020
Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ” (b. August
27, 1908, Gillespie County, Texas; d. January 22, 1973, San Antonio, Texas) was
the 36th president of the United States (1963–69). Britannica note
Maps, Johnson notes (edited) and photo Britannica
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