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( Tomdispatch.com ) - Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic …
Originally posted at TomDispatch. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. So that classic late 1960s song claimed. Still, for Bill Astore and me - William J. Astore for Antiwar.com
Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over
Article: Tomgram: William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East - Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played 'war' with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and 'the Japs' during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the Middle East[...]
PLATTSBURGH — The 25th anniversary of the Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration is on the horizon.