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Can Vietnam awaken us again? Teaching the literature of the Vietnam War - 1 We must never forget that the Vietnam War created the most powerful antiwar movement in history. Even the Modern Language Association was shaken to its roots, making it sprout such forbidden fruit...(Continue Reading) Vietnam War contains lessons for today - Perspective - Brief Article My nephew sent me an e-mail last week asking for help on a high school history project. His subject was Vietnam. Knowing I had lived there during the ......(Continue Reading)Even our enemies deserve music: Michael Franti and other young artists are spearheading a new generation of politically engaged musicians. Jeff Chang charts In New York's hermetic world of music and fashion, it's been the year of the throwback, a post--11 September retreat to the familiar and comfortable....(Continue Reading)Pete Seeger's last war: the grand old lion of the American left sings to fight another day ON THE DAY Ronald Reagan died, an atypically modest tribute to the patriarch of the right appeared at the foot of a veteran's monument in Wappingers ......(Continue Reading)Band of brothers: Philip Kerr on the re-release of the great war movie that made him a pacifist - film - All Quiet on the Western Fr - Movie Review As Michael Hofmann makes clear in the introduction to his excellent new translation of Ernst Junger's book Storm of Steel (Penguin, 14.99 [pounds sterling]), ......(Continue Reading)
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