What’s the greatest anti-war manifesto ever written? Jun 23, 2014
Back when I was a flag-waving Young Republican who thought America had a duty to “keep the world safe for democracy,” my dad, a World War II vet, took me aside and set me straight. “Son, no war is worth its cost,” he said. Soon after, a punctuation-deficient old novel called Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, fell into my hands. It rattled the hell out of me. It’s not just a novel. It’s a concussion device. The story is all told “in the head” of Joe, a young American soldier who has fought in The War To End...
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