Thursday, September 30, 2010

lunch-bucket war

“Whatever their fond sentiments for men and women in uniform, for most Americans the war remains an abstraction — a distant and unpleasant series of news items that does not affect them personally,”
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates

I remember being back on campus at UW after my return from Vietnam, and thinking it's nothing but a "lunch-bucket war". It's just something people talked about over lunch, or we watched on Walter Kronkite's nightly updates on TV. The "Nothing is Real" sentiment I felt over there just evolved into another form of no feeling?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013030661_apususgates.html

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