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...measure of a country's character and a government's competence. Often the war shadows the warriors: to the returning victors of World War II came honor and glory and the GI Bill. But for veterans of Korea--"the Forgotten War"--there was silence. Infantryman Fred Downs returned from Vietnam with four Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and one arm. Back in school, he was asked if he'd lost his arm in the war. Yes, he said. "Serves you right," he was told...
...material that some of your work deals with, are there any reactions that stand out in your mind? JN: I remember showing the film at Berkeley, and this question of gory images came up again. This guy comes up to me afterwards, who had been a photographer during the Vietnam War. He said, ‘I really think that since the Vietnam War when we photographed everything, there has been an extreme clamp-down on people seeing the realities of war.’ Dehumanizing, desensitizing terms really take us far away from the wars and the destruction...
...After his release from Vietnam, McCain was evaluated for years by Navy psychiatrists and deemed on the whole to be coping well with the horrors of his captivity, which included malnourishment, regular beatings and two suicide attempts. Doctors determined that he had an "overdeveloped superego" and an "unrealistically high" need for achievement, two characteristics that have put him in the mainstream of presidential candidates. In 1999, before his first White House bid, McCain released 1,500 pages of medical records dating back to his days in the Navy, as well as the psychiatric evaluations he received after his return from...
...willing to lay off hardball politics. He has repeatedly brought up the fact that a Hamas spokesman said positive things about Obama, even though Obama did not reciprocate the compliments. McCain has also tried to tar Obama by his relationship with William Ayers, a once violent anti-Vietnam War activist, by demanding that Obama call on Ayers to apologize for his actions. (Obama has shot projectiles at McCain as well, misquoting McCain's willingness to have American troops in Iraq for "100 years.") The real message behind McCain's call for "a respectful campaign" appears more narrow: As the political...
...marine and a Vietnam veteran, I was incensed to see you desecrate, on your cover, the photo of the Marine heroes on Iwo Jima. Comparing efforts to reverse human-caused global warming, whose reality remains a matter of scientific debate, to the sacrifices of those who served in World War II is absurd. J. Schmidt, Warkworth, New Zealand...