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vituperation
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
All of the usual off-ramps that firmly secured the cognitive dissonance required to watch a man be shot and feel nothing was used wherever convenient.
John Graham • Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security
But the real discovery was that our two stories together helped me to untangle some of the larger story of our generation of young men, boys who came of age during a historically chaotic and violent time and emerged to succeed and fail in unprecedented ways.
Wes Moore • The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Mokhtar walked out of his captivity in bright camaraderie with his former jailers.
Dave Eggers • The Monk of Mokha
reconnoiter
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
Eventually, Staff Sergeant would roll up and say, “Shut the fuck up, Suba. Hajji shot at us. Lance Corporal Suba shot back. Dead hajji. That’s the happiest ending you can get outside a Thai massage parlor. Now it’s over. Gunners, be alert, get positive ID, you’ll get your chance.”
Phil Klay • Redeployment
‘Folk hero.’ I sipped at the beer. ‘Where is John Wayne now that we really need him?’ ‘John Wayne?’ He shook his head. ‘I never went in the can, you know. I’m no expert at military history.’ ‘Forget it.’
Joe Haldeman • The Forever War
Gavin