[Peace-discuss] book club / suggestion for a first book: The War Comes Home / is there an interest?

[C. G. Estabrook]

The poets usually get there first.  Even there.

On 12/1/10 4:51 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> shades of Miss Lily Lamont and the Firesign Theatre.
> " (all together now.boys)
> ...We're bringing the War Back Home..
> Where it ought of been before
> We're bringing the war back home,
> Where it ought to have been before!
> We'll kill all the bees and spiders and flies,
> And we won't play in iceboxes lying on their sides!...
> ...and it's march march march, et cetera,
> til we don't have to march no more...!
> ...nointed with oil on troubled waters.. Oh, Heavenly Grid, help us bear up 
> thy Standard, our Chevron flashing bright across the Gulf of Compromise, 
> standing Humble on the Richfield of Mobil American Thinking? Here in this 
> Shell we call Life...
> (from How can you be in 2 places at once when you're not anywhere at all,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com <mailto:kmedina67 at gmail.com>>
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:58 PM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] book club / suggestion for a first book: The War 
> Comes Home / is there an interest?
>
> > Hi Peace-discuss,
> >
> > It has been suggested that AWARE start a reading group. I would like
> > to suggest a first book:
> > Title: The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans
> > Author: Aaron Glantz
> > Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009
> > 2 copies Champaign Public Library Nonfiction 362.8609 Gla
> > 1 copy at Tolono, so is available by request
> >
> > Is there interest? Shall we start in January or before?
> >
> > I'd like to read this before February 3, 2010 -- this is the projected
> > date for the IVAW panel on military suicides.
> >
> > -karen medina
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