Word: buntinged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such is the range of sentiment these days of those who really fought the last U.S. war, or so it seems in the creative mind of Novelist Josiah Bunting. The Compellas, Robertson and Lemming are fictional characters from Bunting's superb story of that sad war, The Lionheads, written...
Bunting is an extraordinary man. He was a Marine who went to Virginia Military Institute, became first captain, then a Rhodes scholar, fought with the Mobile Riverine Force of the 9th Infantry Division in Viet Nam, and as a major taught at West Point. He left the Army with feelings...
"For the first time in years there exists in the world a power stronger than we are and deeply hostile to us," Bunting says. "But failure of our will, the failure to act quickly and decisively, is evidence of the values in our society. We have become a nation of...