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Freedom and Honor
Freedom and Honor
“Former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday described the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, as being “much better” than the Medal of Honor, because service members who receive the nation’s highest military honor are often severely wounded or dead.” There are no words.
#war
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Freedom and Honor
Current events
Current events
I am thinking of every post right now as a flight from current events. Those events are always on my mind. But I have no special insight into them.
#death#life#news#war
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Current events
Veterans Day
Veterans Day
From 1923: “In this world-problem and world-task none are more deeply concerned than women. It is we who supremely suffer and mourn when wars rage and sudden death destroys our youth. But we are not without hope.”
#Aristophanes#Homer#VeteransDay#war
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Veterans Day
Timothy Snyder on terrorism
Timothy Snyder on terrorism
“Classically, a terrorist provokes a state in order to generate so much suffering among his own people that they will take the terrorist’s side indefinitely.”
#war
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Timothy Snyder on terrorism
Small Protest
Small Protest
Miniature protestors in Russia.
#war
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Small Protest
Mozart in Lviv
Mozart in Lviv
“We understood why musicians must not keep silent”: Natalia Dub, an audience member for a performance of the Mozart Requiem in Lviv, Ukraine.
#music#war
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Mozart in Lviv
Cellar music
Cellar music
Vera Lytovchenko, violinist, plays for the dozen or so people in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
#life#music#war
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Cellar music
Donald Rumsfeld (1932–2021)
Donald Rumsfeld (1932–2021)
George Packer, writing in The Atlantic: “Rumsfeld was the worst secretary of defense in American history. Being newly dead shouldn’t spare him this distinction.”
#history#war
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Donald Rumsfeld (1932–2021)
“Let’s agree that if”
“Let’s agree that if”
Akiva Eldar, Israeli political analyst and journalist, and Mkhaimar Abusada, professor of political science at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, in conversation.
#war
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“Let’s agree that if”
Food fight
Food fight
From Schlump, Hans Herbert Grimm’s novel of the Great War.
#fiction#war
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Food fight
Of Men and War
Of Men and War
A documentary about American veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq living with PTSD.
#film#war#PTSD
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Of Men and War
The mere fact
The mere fact
The deaths of civilians in war ought never to be considered a mere fact.
#war#words
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The mere fact
Sixty-eight years later
Sixty-eight years later
Elaine and I had the opportunity last night to listen to two World War II veterans give a talk about their experiences in combat.
#war
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Sixty-eight years later
Achilles in Afghanistan
Achilles in Afghanistan
“The subtitle of Achilles in Vietnam — Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character — makes a point that some readers want to resist: that good character provides no sure defense against the experiences of war, that good character can be destroyed by circumstance.”
#Homer#Iliad#war
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Achilles in Afghanistan