Framed prominently on the wall behind Tom Cray’s desk is an excerpt from Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried. The quotation describes what Vietnam soldiers carried, ranging from the mundane to the monumental, the literal to the figurative: “They were afraid of dying, but too afraid to show it. They carried the emotional baggage […]
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Refighting Vietnam (in Rochester)
During last year’s presidential election, many political analysts felt the dialogue sometimes seemed unable to break free of issues surrounding the decades-old conflict in Vietnam. Perhaps that’s because our nation hasn’t finished wrestling with the ghosts of that controversial war. And now that struggle is defining the way we react to Iraq. Just ask anyone […]
