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...film, which shows interviews with more than 40 surviving soldiers and civilians, mostly from four U.S. cities and towns, was conceived before Sept. 11, 2001. Most of the interviews were conducted after the attacks--which, Burns says, reawakened vets' post-Pearl Harbor memories--but before the invasion of Iraq. It's all the more eerie then when Pacific veteran Sam Hynes recalls Japanese atrocities but says he didn't know what Americans might do in similar circumstances, unavoidably conjuring Abu Ghraib. Or when the narrative discusses underequipped soldiers and politicians concerned about upcoming elections--"universal realities of war," Burns stresses...
They're both rich and famous, they're both notoriously earnest and left-leaning, they both have reputations for being emotionally tortured. So it makes a kind of cosmic sense that Sean Penn and Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder would be friends; they have been since 1995, when Vedder wrote music for Dead Man Walking, in which Penn starred. Both are currently experiencing second acts, Penn as a director and Vedder as a film composer. The duo have now collaborated: Vedder has written the sound track for Penn's movie Into the Wild, based on the book...
...into doing sound tracks, what with being a huge rock star and all? Is it a lot different from doing Pearl...
...various times in American history, public service and private effort went arm in arm. After Pearl Harbor, Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam exhorted people to help the war effort, and Americans responded. But since F.D.R., and especially since J.F.K.'s launching of the Peace Corps, national service has been seen by some as a Democratic or liberal idea. In the '90s, Newt Gingrich argued that the rise of big government programs robbed people of their initiative to volunteer. After Bill Clinton signed the bill to create AmeriCorps in 1993, then Senator John Ashcroft called it "welfare for the well...
...Based X-Band radar will finally be up and running in Alaska is hard to say. Right now, the target date is early next year, but to Col. Fellows, pinning these answers down is beside the point. Sitting in his hotel room watching the white dome near the Pearl Harbor memorial put the system's goals in perspective. "People in Hawaii understand SBX because that's what we're trying to do - prevent something from attacking us without forewarning," Fellows says. "If we had been able to stop that, history would have been changed...