Selasa, 11 April 2017

Media Digest | The High Cost of Victory at Hamburger Hill

The operative word in the title of James Wright’s superb book is “enduring.” It applies not only to members of all military branches who were “enduring” the horrors of combat alternating with the soul-numbing boredom of an assignment far from home but also to the families back home “enduring” the wait for their loved ones …

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