Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This summer a film about the Six Days War became very popular in Tel Aviv. Entitled Every Bastard A King, the show included scenes of tank battles in Sinai. A young Israeli soldier who had actually fought in the battles was commenting on how realistic the battle scenes in the movie were...
...This soldier would never have questioned the belief that each Israeli should sense strongly and personally the delicate equilibrium that characterizes life in Israel. Yet he also sincerely felt that his mother should not be required to suffer. He preferred that she be ignorant of the dangers her son faced...
...soldier should have posed some questions which simply did not occur to him. Must every Israeli feel his situation so strongly? Must this tension between fear and security, despair and hope, this constant viewing of life in terms of black and white, be so pervasive...
BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. The love, rebellion and death of a young soldier garrisoned at an 18th century Australian penal colony...
Every military outfit has its G.I. lawyer, learned in the lore of a soldier's real or imaginary rights. But when 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...