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The picture at the top of the column linked below broke my heart, and I thought of the cruel folly of men. It reminded me of my thoughts when I discovered at a class reunion that a friend I hadn't heard about in 50 years had died in Vietnam decades before, that the war never ended.
Some Pope centuries ago remarked that not even the beasts of the forest assemble in battle formation.
But in my case, movies tell the story best, the ending from "Paths of Glory" by Kubrick, where a German girl forces to perform by French soldiers shames them with the beauty of her voice, or the last scene in "Planet of the Apes," when having left the race of apes, Charlton Heston finds the ruins of the Statue of Liberty on a beach, and cries out to the leaders of his race, "God damn them to hell!"
Some Pope centuries ago remarked that not even the beasts of the forest assemble in battle formation.
But in my case, movies tell the story best, the ending from "Paths of Glory" by Kubrick, where a German girl forces to perform by French soldiers shames them with the beauty of her voice, or the last scene in "Planet of the Apes," when having left the race of apes, Charlton Heston finds the ruins of the Statue of Liberty on a beach, and cries out to the leaders of his race, "God damn them to hell!"
Opinion | America, Please Don’t Forget the Victims of Agent Orange (Published 2021)
Victims in Southeast Asia have never received compensation from the chemical giants that supplied herbicides during the Vietnam War.
www.nytimes.com