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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Shelved with: History|| Connected Worlds|| Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Baghdad, Vietnam, Chicago Cubs, War & Peace, Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Afghanistan, Soldiers, Army, Twitter
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Teach Your Children Well

August 8, 2008

How, in narrative terms, would you explain the Iraq war? On the assumption that you didn?t want to say either that, ?Iraq is only one front in World War IV, the global struggle against Islamofascism? or ?we went to war so the President could get back at the guy who tried to kill his dad, make money for his buddies in the oil business, and protect Israel.?

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Tagged With: Iraq, Noah Millman, Rod Dreher, War & Peace, BOF
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