Liz Cheney is a patriot on democracy’s side | Letter Updated 10:26 AM; Colin Kaepernick probably knows of football players with fractured jaws. He also probably knows of Black citizens with fractured jaws or worse, injuries received from racist cops not implementing de-escalation techniques. Ever heard of operation Fracture Jaw? In 1968 the war in Vietnam, which I supported and volunteered for, was not going well. When Gen. William Westmoreland took military command in 1964, only 216 American soldiers had died. By 1968 the death count rose to 16,899, and Westmoreland became desperate enough to contemplate the drastic measure of using nuclear weapons, codenamed Fracture Jaw.