Déjá Vu All Over Again
I never really felt right about the war, even before I joined the army. Well, I am 61 now. I was born in 1947. I am one those “boomers” who were born after World War II. That was quite a celebration, I...
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In history class it was referred to as the Vietnam War, but in Vietnam it will always be the American War. “Shake!” demanded Tony in his lilting, heavily accented English. He had first picked up the...
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Freedom’s what it’s all about. The disappearing afternoon had prompted an idle argument between my father and I. He believed in the war in Iraq. I did not. And so the conversation slunk back and forth...
View ArticleA Soldier’s Dread
I had a conversation with a young American soldier on an airplane forty years ago at a time when his countrymen were coming home from Vietnam in body bags. Out of a flight of a little more than three...
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