Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness
Friday, 12 Sep 2025 | Thinking about Individual Identity within Organizations
What does "loyalty" mean to you, ...
... and how may it be expressed in terms of your role within an organization?
... relate to this?
Many an officer who shipped out to Saigon carried with him a dog-eared copy of “Street Without Joy: Indochina at War, 1946-1954,”
published in 1961.
In early 1968, when it seemed possible that American forces could be in for a disastrous siege at Khe Sanh,
officers scrambled to get their hands on “Hell in a Very Small Place,” Fall's searing account of the siege at Dien Bien Phu,
14 years earlier,
in which the French suffered the decisive loss in their own struggle to control the country.
For almost two months, in the hell of the besieged French military base at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, Geneviève de Galard, a military nurse,
tended to the wounded in a dark, filthy underground infirmary — men with holes in their backs, abdomens shot out, shrapnel wounds everywhere.
When the fight was over, on May 7, 1954, after more than 10,000 soldiers had been taken prisoner by the communist Viet Minh insurgents
in one of the greatest military disasters in French history,
Ms. de Galard continued to change the bandages of the wounded, refusing to leave their side.
There's a history in Chilean music and there's a lot to say about Victor Jara,
but Rolling Stone hits some of the key points.
The love and justice songs of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara were apparently so threatening to the military leaders who staged the nation's 1973 coup
that they had to murder him. After beginning his career in the theater, Jara took up songwriting as his country endured the social convulsions of the Sixties.
He supported the Socialist presidential candidate Salvador Allende, who was overthrown from office by the Chilean right wing and later died under mysterious circumstances.
Taken prisoner with thousands of others in a stadium that now bears his name, Jara was tortured; after they broke his hands, guards mocked the singer, ordering him to play guitar.
Defiant, he sang a political anthem that translates as "We Will Win."
For his insubordination, Jara was machine-gunned to death, his body dumped on a street outside Santiago.
A few months later, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs headlined a benefit in Jara's name in New York.
