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It was a smashingly successful cease-fire, for in the last two years only 150,000 soldiers had died, in addition to the requisite number of civilians. Imagine how many would have died without a truce!
Sometimes he choked on his emotions so badly I feared I would have to perform the Heimlich maneuver on him.
His arrogance marked something new in the world, for this was the first war where the losers would write history instead of the victors, courtesy of the most efficient propaganda machine ever created (with all due respect to Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis, who never achieved global domination).
These instructions caused some confusion among the extras. The tallest one, and the ranking noncommissioned officer, a sergeant, said, He wants us to torture this guy and look like we’re enjoying ourselves, right? The shortest extra said, But what’s that got to do with acting natural?
When the Viet Cong captured them, they committed one of their infamous, heinous acts of desecration on Attucks, castrating him and stuffing his manhood in his mouth. This, according to Claude in his interrogation course, was something certain Native American tribes also inflicted on trespassing white settlers, despite being of a different race thousands of miles away and more than a century past. See? Claude said, showing us the slide of an archaic black-and-white illustration depicting such an indigenous massacre. He followed this with another slide, a black-and-white photograph featuring the
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I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.
college fraternities, which seemed to recruit only those who would have been eligible for the Hitler Youth.
Now that we are the powerful, we don’t need the French or the Americans to fuck us over. We can fuck ourselves just fine.
