Journalist and Author

Joe Sharkey

1 article 1998

Joe Sharkey is a journalist and author known for his work covering crime, business, and human interest stories. He spent many years as a columnist for The New York Times business section and has written several nonfiction books. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1998 with a piece on military themes.

HONORABLE SOLDIERS

September 7, 1998 · Magazine, Books and Arts

The last American forces left southeast Asia twenty-five years ago, but we are still being startled by "revelations" about the Vietnam War, most recently the CNN-Time magazine joint report that American troops attacked a Laotian village with illegal nerve gas during a covert operation to kill…