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DannyRed Donating Member (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 10:52 PM
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 10:59 PM
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1. Yeah, but no one died!
FAUX and other channels were orgasming over the fact that no Americans have died in 3 whole days! Wounded is just as bad. Read: "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. Real eye-opener.
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 11:12 PM
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2. Johnny Got His Gun
OMG! Wonderful book, everyone should read.
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sfecap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 11:22 PM
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3. One of the best books ever...
Anne Coulter's hero and Ronnie Raygun's buddy Joe McCarthy got Trumbo blacklisted...
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 12:20 AM
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5. Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with Trumbo or the Hollywood Ten. . .
Their nemesis in the House was J. Parnell Thomas, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee. By the time McCarthy made his entrance on the stage, Trumbo had served his time in prison, been released, and was writing screenplays under assumed names to evade the Blacklist.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:45 AM
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10. I think Trumbo was dead by then though
But I have heard that Coulter mocked it, you know what the nazis did the same to Remerque's All Quiet on the Western Front.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 08:46 AM
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11. Trumbo died in 1976. . .
five years after he produced the film version of Johnny using his own money, and with an unfinished masterpiece, Night of the Aurochs, not quite half finished.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 12:15 AM
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4. I was a KID when my dad had me read that book
I agree with all on this thread.
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 12:24 AM
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6. Read it
dark, troubling and a damned good reason to stop thinking about war like football game.

Ever see the British flick "What a Lovely War"?
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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 12:41 AM
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7. how about the dems and gops stopping thinking that running this country
is a football game?
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:32 AM
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8. One of the best anti-war novels ever written
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:44 AM
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9. yeah I know rasputin1952 here at DU recommended it to me
Thanks Ras, really have learned a lot about the wars because of you.
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umcwb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 01:31 PM
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12. Locking - Dupe
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