[thechat] Tony Swofford "Jarhead"
Mike Migurski
mike at saturn5.com
Wed Mar 12 14:16:48 CST 2003
>> This is an adjunct prof here at Lewis and Clark College. He is in his
>> early 30's, was a Marine in the Gulf War. His dad was in Vietnam, his
>> grandfather WWII.
>>
>> His memoir is receiving some amazing reviews by publications the New
>> York Times, etc being favorably compared to books like "Catch 22."
Salon had a good article about it;
"None of the rewards of victory will come my way, because there
are no rewards, not on the field of battle, not for the man who
fights the battle -- the rewards accrue in places like Washington,
D.C., and Riyadh and Houston and Manhattan, south of 125th
Street." This is how it works now; a nation's rulers no longer
lead their people into battle as Charlemagne once did. Even the
middle class mostly manages to keep itself out of the fray. The
soldiers come from a social strata that's not "us," which makes it
that much easier for those who watch from the sidelines to wax
hawkish -- and turns the lives of fighting men into an object of
marveling curiosity.
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/03/10/jarhead/index.html
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