No! British details are good, too - after all, Steve spent a bunch of time in London.
And I'll be looking up those memoirs, all 7 volumes. Once they're in the field, all soldiers are experiencing nearly the same things.
The more I read, the more I get the impression of the 1950s-early 1960s as a time of O HAI NOTHING REALLY BAD HAPPENED RECENTLY AND EVERYTHING'S PERFECT AND EVERYTHING THAT ISN'T WE'LL SHOVE UNDER THE RUG BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO IGNORE HOW MUCH THE LAST 20 YEARS SUCKED.
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Date: 2012-11-03 04:14 am (UTC)No! British details are good, too - after all, Steve spent a bunch of time in London.
And I'll be looking up those memoirs, all 7 volumes. Once they're in the field, all soldiers are experiencing nearly the same things.
The more I read, the more I get the impression of the 1950s-early 1960s as a time of O HAI NOTHING REALLY BAD HAPPENED RECENTLY AND EVERYTHING'S PERFECT AND EVERYTHING THAT ISN'T WE'LL SHOVE UNDER THE RUG BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO IGNORE HOW MUCH THE LAST 20 YEARS SUCKED.