Word: soldier
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...Until last night. Having grown up as a Bears fan in pre-Colts Indianapolis - the first NFL game my father ever took me to see was at Soldier Field - I've never been as ardent a fan of Peyton Manning's crew as my younger brother is (or my son, whom I've gladly let my Hoosier relatives turn into a Colts enthusiast). But today I can't help feeling that the balance of urban cachet back home along I-65 has changed to a certain, positive extent. Indianapolis may never be Chicago, but it's certainly no longer...
...bronchitis, possibly verging on pneumonia, not hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver with symptoms entirely different from mine. What sort of ''doctor'' was this? When I looked at him through the small window, I saw a country lad, no more than 20 years of age, in a soldier's uniform. I realized he was not a trained doctor at all but had been given the job because Mao had said, ''We must learn swimming from swimming.'' Several days passed; my fever got so high that I no longer felt the cold in the cell. The guard told me to stay...
...More than 100 soldiers have been prosecuted through the military justice system for refusing service in Iraq, and an unknown number of other soldiers have simply deserted, fleeing to Canada and other places. But Watada is believed to be the only officer to have refused deployment. And he is certainly the only soldier to have gone to his punishment in such a public manner, speaking at anti-war gatherings, enlisting the services of a D.C.-based public relations agency, and speaking to his supporters by video via a web site (thankyoult.org). Watada has not become a grassroots catalyst of antiwar...
...summer of 2005 had been willing to go to Iraq. He changed his mind, he said, when he learned more about the war. When asked why he is now refusing a job he essentially signed up for, Watada reframes the question, arguing that the job of a soldier includes refusing orders when he believes they are illegal. "I signed up to defend our country. The war in Iraq is hurting our country. Those who swear an oath need to stand...
...purveyor of solidly middlebrow culture to go with its joe. Beah's is the second book it has chosen to feature in its 6,000 stores. Its first was by best-selling male weepmeister Mitch Albom (he of those Tuesdays with Morrie), which suggests how far the child-soldier has moved as a phenomenon for mass consumption...