The U.S. Army says it is looking into a report that drums of the Vietnam War-era toxic defoliant Agent Orange were buried at an American military facility in South Korea 33 years ago.a.

美国陆军表示，正在调查一则关于一些越南战争时期使用的有毒落叶剂“橙剂”33年前被埋在韩国的一处美军设施地下的报导。

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Some 60 other jets are Vietnam-war era F-5s mainly used for training, and hardly fit for that-another two F-5s crashed on September 13th, the latest in a string of such incidents.

其馀的六十多架战机则是越战时期使用的F - 5型号，现大多供作训练用途且即将濒临淘汰，另外两架F - 5战机在九月十三日失事，是一连串类似意外以来的最新一起。

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We're in a post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era, in that brief period in American history where we felt confident and almost complacent in our place in the world.

我们身处后‘水门事件’时代和后越战时代，在美国历史上这短短一页里，我们感到自信，为我们国家的世界地位而沾沾自喜。

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That's the kind of letter people use to write when they went off to Vietnam in my era."

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But the truth is that in the Vietnam era patriotism was put to the test, and was genuine on both sides of the debate.

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"It's a recruiting gimmick a very expensive recruiting gimmick, and we think it's part of this, sadly, growing culture of militarism in our country, " said Gagnon, a peace activist from Bath who served in the Air Force in the Vietnam era.

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If he stays in his job through December - and most analysts think he will - he'll become the longest serving Pentagon chief in history, passing the Vietnam era's Robert McNamara.

NPR: Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Self-Defense