Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another common argument is that Harvard should memorialize Confederate soldiers because a Nazi soldier has been honored in Memorial Church. On the surface, this is the old but surely false "two wrongs make a right" argument. But closer inspection shows that the German whose name appears on the Church wall, Adolf Sannwald, was drafted against his will into the Nazi forces. He was a minister who opposed the Nazis and helped to shelter Jews. He tried to serve as a chaplain but was forced to carry out non-combatant jobs such as janitor and clerk...
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, CRITIC...
...said he found two freshly dug graves with canes, crutches and civilian jackets on the surface Serb officials later said the graves were for "fierce Bosnian soldiers." "No soldier I know needs a cane," Rohde said...
...snapping a photograph of a human femur at the second grave, a Bosnian Serb soldier arrested him and charged him with being...
Throughout the performance, both the plot and characterization stood out as naive. Bluntschli being referred to as the "chocolate creme" soldier was immature and Louka's girlish innocence didn't quite fit her character. The childhood regression seemed inappropriate for the subject at hand. Possibly Shaw was trying to contrast adolescent naivete with the harsh reality of the late 19th century war setting, but the concepts repelled each other more than making a statement...