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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
- Nov 07, 2020
War is an abstraction.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
- Reporting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm reporting on a world at war.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020