The American Legion [Volume 126, No. 2 (February 1989)]

Cover: Violence in Our Schools by Cliff Miller -- Know Your America: The Fifth Amendment Contains Little More Than 100 Words, but It Guarantees All Americans Five Precious Freedoms by Douglas Greene -- Soldier, Teacher, Sage: Military Retirees Make Ideal Candidates for Educators, Counselors and Principals by William J Bennett -- Violence in Our Schools: Last Year, 176,000 Teachers Were Kicked, Punched, Stabbed or Murdered by Lester David -- How to Save Our Schools: Strong Leadership, Velvet-Glove Discipline, Quality Education and High Expectations Rank High Among Measures That Work -- America's Love Affair with Coupons: American Consumers Redeemed 7 Billion Coupons Last Year to Save Millions of Dollars by Phyllis Zauner -- Red China: Let Sleeping Dragons Lie: Regardless of Western Economic Assistance, Communist China Will Forever Remain Communist China -- Four Brave Men: They Died as They Lived: Placing Their Faith in God and Loving Their Fellow Man by Vernon Pizer -- Baltimore: Convention City "89: Birthplace of the National Anthem and the Babe, Baltimore Offers Something for All -- Six Ways to Compete with the USSR: "Too Often, the United States Steps onto the Battlefield of Ideas Unarmed" by Richard Nixon -- The Gun That Couldn't Shoot Straight: This "Edsel of Defense" Couldn't Track Enemy Targets, Keep Up with the Troops, or Negotiate Hills and Ditches, Yet Each One Cost 6.7 Million Dollars by Steve Salerno -- "We Make Their Day": "A Prosthetic Device Is an Extension of a Person's Self. It's More Than Just Providing an Artificial Limb to a Veteran and Sending Him on His Way" -- Amerasian Children: "We'll Accept Them All": More Than 13,000 Amerasians and Their Families Have Come from Vietnam to the United States to Live. The Influx Continues -- The Big Issues: Should Congress Exact the Death Penalty for Drug-Related Killings? -- Letters -- Commander's Message -- Dateline -- Money Sense -- Your American Legion -- Veterans Update -- Legion News -- Veterans Alert -- Parting Shots