War | War
Sep.25.2012
New articles have been published about what it used to be like, like 15,000 years ago.
They've found ceramic pieces in Croatia, remnants from an ice age. Folks are excited. It's more ceramics that our ancestors left in one place than all the other places combined. Experts didn't think...
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Sep.22.2012
September 22
MEGAPHONE
The point of surviving, or maybe the goal after survival, is enabling the voices of victims to be heard, starting with my own. I allow the surging waves of thought and feeling to rush the gates and exit. I try to bleed the bad with and...
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Sep.04.2012
" You give full credit to Cormac McCarthy for inspiring your harrowing novel, The Book of War. What made you decide to pay tribute to him in this novel, and how did the marriage of your “kid’s” journey coincide with the Eastern Cape Frontier Wars? What made you choose this era in particular...
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Aug.28.2012
Deir-Ez-Zur in the Syrian desert, near the Iraqi border, not so many years ago: a modern hotel filled with muscular, sunburned American men working in the oil fields. A few European businessmen were staying there, too. No other Americans, except us.
Each evening, shirt sleeves...
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Aug.24.2012
The Book of War is now available in the US via AfricanLookBook
"A BRILLIANT, unforgettable debut. Steeped in carnage..."
Andrew Donaldson in The Times:
"... one is thrown, like them, into the heart of the action, in a state of dread and fascination induced by the dire events, the ...
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Aug.18.2012
Note: The following essay was adapted from my book, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" in the section called Viet Kieu (Vietnamese living overseas). A version of it was also adapted for acommentary on NPR's All Things Considered. Also embedded between the...
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Aug.06.2012
Americans like to use the phrase, 'Lest we forget' when speaking of the Japanese attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. Never again would America be caught napping. The attack was part of World War II, a war that started in 1939, after the war to end all wars didn't...
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Aug.03.2012
History is easily forgotten, yet everything we are today is because of it. Iran and our relationship with that country is a good example. Not many people from the West visit Iran these days, but not long ago quite a few were – and were welcomed by Iran. Even though women entering...
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Aug.03.2012
I posted the following as a review of my Vietnam War book "A Hard Place/A Sergeants Tale" After re-publishing the revised paperback version with Createspace. Thought I would share with you my feelings!Well! After a lot of input from readers which ran very favorable in the majority, and after...
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Jul.30.2012
Flames have destroyed the ancient souk of Aleppo, burning medieval storehouses, countless small shops, a hammam, and once elegant courtyards. The troops of the Syrian president-for-life and the desperate rebels determined to end his...
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