Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile.
"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Christmas in the Trenches by Kathleen Zaffina
My friend sings Christmas in the Trenches, which she first introduced me to 17 years ago. It is about World War I, also in War Horse, where a large number of men died, for a few yards of mud.
