(Brantley) 'STEEL MAGNOLIAS' Despite an ensemble featuring high-profile veterans of stage, film and television, sitting through this portrait of friendship among Southern women, set in a beauty parlor in small-town Louisiana, is like watching nail polish dry (2:20).

Questioned whether they would choose to join the military were they young men today, six of the eight veterans sitting around the bar said no.

Diefenbaker recounted that a veteran, sitting on the jury, expressed shock at Pepler's comment, and Diefenbaker lost no opportunity during the rest of the trial to address Pepler as "Colonel".

Most of the other veterans sitting with Mr. Kaplan also expressed anger about Mr. McNamara's revelation.

There was a closeness among the four veterans sitting at our dinner table that was, if not quite unique in my quarter-century experience of interviewing veterans, certainly unusual.

When it comes to war, the veterans sitting at the bar here tonight had a single opinion.

He was the National Member of Parliament for Franklin from 1957 (when the veteran sitting MP John Norman Massey was deselected by the National Party in favour of Allen) to 1972, when he retired.

As the general spoke, the veterans, sitting in seats of honor, mostly looked at their thick-soled shoes.

But with both soldiers facing the ends of their tours here within months, they listened carefully to the analysis offered by three veterans sitting around their table, men who had a total of half a century of Korea experience among them.