Company K — Americans in France, WW I
William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …
Category Archives: War
Bringing Mulligan Back Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Dale Maharidge is the author of two well regarded books of nonfiction. The second, And Their Children After Them, following …
The Enormous Room — ee cummings
The Enormous Room by ee cumings, known and loved far and wide for his playful erotic, anarchic, love-full, meaning-full poems, …
“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
Nixon and Kissinger: The Blood Keeps Seeping
I’ve been reading Daniel Ellsberg’s Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers to be reminded again of the …
Gas Attacks
Reposting this first of all anti-war poems to make an impact on me as a young man, as news of …
August 9, 68 Years Later
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Beautiful Souls: A Review
Some time ago I spent a weekend in the company of fellow Vietnam War resisters, trying to talk about what …
Enemies of the People: A Cambodian Recollection
The Cambodian documentary, Enemies of the People is a one man labor of collection and recollection 30 years after the …
War: A Head Spinning Spiral
Reading a wonderful book, Beautiful Souls:Saying No, Breaking Ranks and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times, by Eyal …
Hannah Arendt: A Movie, A Book
In this 50th year following the publication of Hannah Arendt’s troubled and troubling book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the …
Exit the Glories of Empire
Rumors of the glorious British Empire persist, the benevolence of the colonial rule, the improvement in the lives of the …