George Packer
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That', and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth', by Vera Brittain.
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My father told me when I went to college...Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers...A person with a new idea is a crank...We are not makers of history. We are made by history...Voting is how we participate in a civic society...A hair divides what is false and true...
