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Both Kaufer and Weinberg said they were astounded when they read “The Naked and the Dead,” Mailer’s first novel, a vivid depiction of war based on Mailer’s experience as a soldier in the Pacific in World...
...There was little joy at their release last week. The military is Turkey's most revered institution; every 18-year-old male is required to complete an army tour. Because Turkish soldiers are widely upheld as heroes, the former hostages were vilified by the public for not choosing death over the dishonor of capture by the enemy. With nationalist fervor at a peak, some right-wing pundits accused them of being Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) moles. One was of Kurdish origin, others pointed out. Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said he could not "accept the fact that they went with...
...This is the military's response to an incident that has made them uncomfortable," says political commentator Mehmet Ali Birand. "The military is giving a clear message to any soldier who finds himself in a similar situation. That message is 'Fight. Do not surrender easily...
...sound of hollow footsteps heightens the chill of the room in Memorial Church. A hooded female figure, carved in stone, mourns over a fallen soldier. In the stone walls, cool to the touch, 691 names of Harvard’s World War II dead form grooves that welcome grieving, searching fingers...
Waterboarding has been a crime in the United States since 1901, when the government sentenced an Army major to 10 years of hard labor for water boarding a Philippino insurgent during the Spanish-American War. It was still a crime during the Vietnam War, when a U.S. soldier was severely punished after a photograph appeared in the Washington Post depicting the soldier waterboarding a North Vietnamese prisoner. There is no reason it should not be a crime...