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Among the photographs in James Whitlow Delano's book Empire: Impressions from China, is an image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they...
...stories about his valor during various firefights and skirmishes. But memories can vary from person to person; Gardner insists that the Kerry he knew in Vietnam was a singularly un-heroic figure. He dismisses the glowing eyewitness accounts of his crewmates Jim Wasser (Radarman), Bill Zaladonis (Petty Officer), Drew Whitlow (Boatswain?s Mate) and Stephen Hatch (Boatswain?s Mate) as bunk. ?Kerry sat some of them down and convinced them to buy into his side of what happened over there,? he explains in bizarrely conspiratorial fashion with no evidence to back him up. ?When you?re as persuasive as Kerry...
...didn?t go to sea,? he averred. ?But he always tried to park it away from the action and hide.? The other members of PCF-44 were incredulous when they heard Gardner?s claim. To Wasser it was ?erroneous to his memory,? to Zaladonis ?just not true,? to Whitlow ?false? and to Hatch ?a falsehood...
...Jason Whitlow ’99, who created a website last year shortly after the attacks so that alumni living in New York could let their classmates know they were alright, said it is emotionally draining to remember what he went through last year...
...think that I don’t want to sit down in front of the TV if there are any specials,” Whitlow said. “If anything, I will be spending the time with friends and talking about...