observare

US dropped something like 8 million tonnes of ordnance on tiny vietnam. that's more than they dropped on imperial japan and nazi germany combined!

reparations.

money.

assistant district attorney, i think?

"There is no chance that experience could be reproduced today, let alone that a trial could be terminated by the revelation of White House actions against a defendant that were clearly criminal in Richard Nixon's era --- and figured in his resignation in the face of impeachment --- but are today all regarded as legal (including an attempt to 'incapacitate me totally')."

• D. Ellsberg

re: "Celebrate"

i don't think that word means what you think it means!

itt "commemorate" is more apt