Word: guilts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...former Senator Bob Kerrey, that nightmare never goes away. He knows that one night 32 years ago in Vietnam, he and his squad of Navy SEALs killed nearly a score of unarmed civilians, mainly women and children. The shame and guilt and remorse have haunted him since. He did not want to make his personal anguish public any more than other Americans want to dredge up the nation's agony again. But because a fellow SEAL who lived through the same nightmare that night has come forward with an even more damning chain of events than Kerrey admits...
...Senator Max Cleland Democrat of Georgia War takes its toll, and anybody who doesn't understand that hasn't been to war. Part of it is the pain and guilt. It's taken me 30 years or more to deal with the Vietnam War. I felt guilty coming back, and to be looked upon as a war hero was hard. I thought it was my own grenade that I had dropped that blew me up. (Cleland lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam.) And then a year and a half ago, I found out it was the guy getting...
...Japanese suffered the world's hatred during the war, they earned its sympathy with the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan. The old villains were now victims; those damaged faces seized the heart with the same violent poignancy as the corpses at Auschwitz. From this collective sorrow and guilt, two genres were spawned. In the Godzilla movies, atomic blasts awaken a prehistoric monster (and he still hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon...
Parents are also driven by something a lot more primal: old-fashioned guilt. Even as men take on more responsibility for rearing children, the lion's share of baby care is still handled by mothers. But in an era in which it often takes two incomes to meet the monthly nut, increasing numbers of moms can't spend nearly as much time with their kids as they'd like. In 1999, 62% of mothers worked outside the home. That figure was 54% in 1985 and just 44% in 1975. "Parents feel tremendous guilt because they feel they're spreading themselves...
...really thinking about her either. I am thinking about not thinking about her, and feeling neither guilt nor responsibility. Now, here's a feat for Alzheimer's: it takes guilt away from a Jew! If I converted to Catholicism, would I get some back...