Ms. Pelosi also said the military should correct the records of soldiers who were discharged under the policy.
A panel of French historians has called for the records of soldiers who were shot for cowardice and desertion in World War I to be rewritten.
During the Civil War, "there were records of soldiers being institutionalized for what people called 'masturbatory madness,'" Laqueur explains.
To describe the viral etiology, clinical features, and epidemiologic characteristics of acute lower respiratory tract infections (LTRIs) among the South Korean military, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of soldiers who were identified with an acute LTRI.
If we were interested, we might notice that record numbers of soldiers are killing themselves.
But this year has seen record numbers of soldiers killed, and there also have been several scandals involving military misconduct.
A record number of soldiers have lost their limbs serving their country in Iraq and Afghanistan, almost one in four suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and their suicide numbers are unacceptably high.
The longest American war continues amidst a flood of bad news from the war front -- supply routes cut, oil tankers burning, record deaths of soldiers and Afghan civilians, U.S. funding the Taliban to protect U.S. troops... on and on, the war failure stares the United States in the face.
But he's done a service by compiling a record of these soldiers' bravery in the cause of an American democracy that they claimed, with defiance and hopefulness, as their own.
WASHINGTON — The collapse this week of the prosecution of a Marine for a civilian massacre in Haditha, Iraq — a striking outcome, even in a military justice system with a mixed record of charging soldiers for war crimes — has not only outraged Iraqis but also stunned some American military law specialists.
