war

  • In 1940, the future president John F. Kennedy published a book which investigates the question of why England was unprepared for war with Germany in 1939.  In this day and age it is hard to imagine a leader of the United States thinking deeply on much of anything other than their own personal image.  The…

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  • “All this happened, more or less” Kurt Vonnegut begins his classic work, Slaughterhouse Five.  Since the story involves the character Billy Pilgrim traveling through space and time this seems almost unimaginable.  For certain, Vonnegut felt the same during his time sheltering during the bombing raid in Schlachthof 5 (Slaugherhouse Five).  Vonnegut uses a science fiction…

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