As a kid growing up in the 1960′s and 70′s, I really believed that America was rapidly becoming a better place, and the future looked bright. In first grade and kindergarten, I attended a school in a nearby “ghetto” neighborhood, where the “War on Poverty” lured privileged white kids like myself by offering gym classes, [...]
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There are, really, no words adequate to describe the emotions surrounding military service in Vietnam. Tons of them have been used; reams of paper have taken the weight of those words; analysis has been deep and wide over more than forty years. But as a veteran I think the great analysts on both sides of [...]
