This column is on lactation and isn’t going to write a damned word until half-October. People are talking about some Vietnam series by Ken Burns, I think it is .I saw the original, so I’ll pass. But if we want opinions, I’ll contribute from long ago.
I begin to weary of the stories about veterans that are now in vogue with the newspapers, the stories that dissect the veteran’s psyche as if prying apart a laboratory frog — patronizing stories written by style-section reporters who know all there is to know about chocolate mousse, ladies’ fashions, and the wonderful desserts that can be made with simple jello. I weary of seeing veterans analyzed and diagnosed and explained by people who share nothing with veterans, by people who, one feels intuitively, would regard it as a harrowing experience to be alone in a backyard. Week after week the mousse authorities tell us what is wrong with the veteran. The veteran is badly in need of adjustment, they say — lacks balance, needs fine tuning to whatever it is in society that one should be attuned to.
What we have here, all agree, with
omniscience and veiled condescension, is a victim: The press loves a
victim. The veteran has bad dreams, say the jello writers, is alienated,
may be hostile, doesn’t socialize well — isn’t, to be frank, quite
right in the head.
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Not a damn one of these amoral philosophical vegans would bother to read "Stolen Valor" or actually converse with a real veteran. They have spent decades sheltered from the real world and have finally regressed to safe spaces and pussy hats. indyjonesouthere
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DeleteI have the video and very good.