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...Tale of a Traitor The excerpt from the autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the U.S. Army sergeant who left his post in South Korea and fled to the communist North in 1965 [Oct. 24], will generate a lot of sympathy for him. We shouldn't forget, however, that he deserted because he was scared of going to Vietnam. Legally, Jenkins is a free man now, having been discharged from the U.S. military. But knowing about those who served honorably in Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq, I have difficulty feeling any sympathy for that coward. Kazuho Baba...
...that his brief eulogy was coming to an end. The marine looked at the casket, and, his voice quivering, said one more thing that will remain with me until the day I too pass away: “Rest in peace, marine—we’ll never forget you!” And so tomorrow, less than two years after his passing, on a day devoted to all those who have served our country, I remember John R. Sutton, Second Lieutenant United States Marine Corps—my grandfather, and a great American warrior.Mark A. Adomanis...
...while it probably wouldn’t do much damage to the larger progressive movement that I care about. But I have come to feel that going to the club at all is an irresponsible choice. The niceness of the members is not enough to make me forget what I endorsed by joining, and would even endorse today by dropping by. So I choose not to go. It’s my way of taking responsibility—and of acknowledging everyone who was never presented a choice in the first place...
French jihad? Algeria's revenge? Intifada-sur-Seine? Forget all that. The riots currently rocking France have far more in common with the violence that shook Watts, Cleveland, and Harlem in the mid-1960s than they do with the Islamist extremism behind 9/11 or the attacks in Madrid and London. The driving forces are socio-economic injustice and racial segregation, not a thirst for infidel blood on the march to a global Caliphate. The infuriated youths burning cars and stoning police in the dismal suburbs of Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes and beyond are demanding a piece of France's modern...
...wrestling with its own rage, the fundamental message of “The Colored Museum” is that it is impossible to forget or suppress the past, no matter how traumatic. In order to live a meaningful life, the collective pain and anger inherent in the African-American experience must be embraced on some level. The result is a deeply mournful, but ultimately unifying celebration of pain...