Red Dawn

Red Dawn

Sue came home from work later than usual, so rather than finding me at my desk, or in the kitchen making dinner, she found me on the couch watching TV.

"What're you watching?" she asked, and then glanced at the screen long enough to see a very young Patrick Swayze. "The Outsiders?"

"Well," I said. "The Outsiders with machine guns."

"Oh," she said. "Red Dawn."

When I was young, my friends and I loved Red Dawn. We were were young, Midwestern high school boys interested in global politics a...