The Unwomanly Face of War
I emailed some of the early members of the women’s movement to ask how men around them adapted to such fast-moving changes. When it came to their intimate male partners, they told me, hostility toward feminism wasn’t so blatant; as it had with Mor, it took the form of a jumbled ambivalence that had the power to make reasonable women feel utterly di
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The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
A key reason college football came into existence in the late nineteenth century was that veterans who’d fought in the Civil War feared the next generation of men would be soft and ill prepared for the building of a republic (“We gotta give these boys something to do,” these veterans believed. “Hell, they’ll probably go through life without killing
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Though the Chemical Warfare Service ran tests on animals—goats were a favorite—it insisted that all gases and equipment be ultimately tested on humans. Those humans were soldiers, recruited with modest inducements such as extra leave time or appeals to patriotism. They participated in three types of tests. In the drop test, liquid was applied to th
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