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...anyone in this country to join the military. The men and women of the military don't need the American people to protect them. They need America to support them. That means supporting them both in time of war and in their decision to enlist. Michele Posehn, Watchung, New Jersey...
...that the Pakistani-born Briton, now 35, manages to stake out his own life, more hopeful than his parents', not by becoming an assimilated Englishman, nor by turning to radical Islam, but by becoming, of all things, a Springsteenite. In the songs of the Catholic Bruce Springsteen, from New Jersey, the keema aloo-loving boy in working-class England finds a way to grasp his parents' dreams while also claiming new dreams of his own. From Springsteen, he breathes in a distinctly American sense of possibility, and the freedom of self-reinvention. Amid the regular guys and waitresses...
...meet him wearing pajamas under his trousers so he doesn't look so skinny, and planning a rock group called Yasser Arafat and the Ayatollahs of Love. The overwhelming impression is of a dark-skinned Woody Allen hoping to remake himself as a bruiser from New Jersey's Asbury Park...
...gives up a bit on America and its hopefulness, as his hero (on his album of reconciliation, The Rising) seldom does. But by then Manzoor has already showed us how to live as something more than just a Briton, a Muslim or a Pakistani. At a concert in New Jersey once, an American fan, taking him for a terrorist, challenges Manzoor to name his favorite Springsteen songs. As he starts to reel off the numbers that speak to him - one after another - the clash of civilizations suddenly begins to sound remote, and we're in the midst of a mass...
...anyone in this country to join the military. The men and women of the military don't need the American people to protect them. They need America to support them. That means supporting them both in time of war and in their decision to enlist. Michele Posehn, WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY...