Janet was referring to, you know, the moral injury, people pay more and more attention to that, and lets note pretend this only exists on the military side of the equation. Theres trama and disability in the world as well. To me, you might disagree, but, to me, its the commonality here is once something happens in your life, whether its a single event or accumulation of things, but theres some its not just trauma, but something happens that just rattles you down to the bones. What do you do then . Succumb to it or busy trying to recover. Ptsd, civilian or military, one of the guys said, you know, life comes with trauma, and trauma necessarily comes from a sense of recovery. Thats what we do, and to get back to the idea to be careful here because of the notion of perpetuating the stereotype of the imroaken soldier. Thats there are broken soldiers from these wars. Does not mean they are forever broken. Probably most of them, throughout history, will not be, but that does not mean you dis
Theedd4m struggle for, to use of the arabic words, karama dignity throughout the region. This isnt going away, and there are many historical events that are going to unfold in the years and decades to come that i think are going to rock these regimes or induce them to come to terms with the demands for dignity, accountability and popular sovereignty. So were going to have to do another edition of this book, mark. Thats the one thing i think we can say for sure. [laughter] mark, my coeditor, thank you very much. All of the staff at the journal of democracy, the National Endowment for democracy and our three panelists, thank you all. [applause] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. Watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. From the 2014 Los Angeles Times festival of books, a Panel Discussion on feminism. Its a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, my cl
I want you also to note that at the end of the session 10 or 15 minutes before the end we will be taking questions from the audience. There is a microphone set up in one of the isles and if you are immobile reach her hand and we the mic to you. Let me start with myra macpherson. She is an author and a veteran journalist. She has had many years of the Washington Post writing for the papers legendary style section. She has interviewed serial killers, celebrities, International Leaders like Cubas Fidel Castro and when she was in and then she interviewed president kennedy. I was four. She wrote for the post on Vietnam Veterans and led her to write her groundbreaking book groundbreaking book long time passing vietnam and the junta generation one of the first books about the first to examine the insidious problem of ptsd. In 2006 she wrote all governments lie, the life and times of rebel journalist i have stoned and she has also delved into intimate topics and she came to live out loud and i
[inaudible discussions] my clock says 12 30. Lets get started. Welcome to the Los Angeles Times book festival. I am a columnist and check me out at la times website. This is the evolution of Feminism Panel so if that is not what you came to hear you are in the wrong place. I want to ask you to silence your cellphone. There is a book signing following the session so you can continue the conversation with our authors afterwards in signing area five. Personal recording of the sessions is not allowed. We are also being broadcast live on cspan. And i was supposed to Say Something about earthquake safety. If you feel an earthquake, please, leave calmly and put your hands over your head. I want you to know at the end of the session, 1015 minutes before the end, we will take questions from the audience. There is a mike setup in an aisle and if you are not mobile raise your hand and we will bring you a mike. Lets start with mia. He she is an author and veteran journalist and wrote for the Washi
Dallas and theres a ranch there and she gets invited to go shooting. So her daughter dresses up in like western gear and apparel has the first kind of teenage romance with a texas guy. And her reception that madame nhu gets from her mother, was very worried about madame nhus visit to the United States so she posts a state department has had an estimate as has madame nhu really shouldnt come you. I have arent all that the in these to throw tomatoes after and if they see her to run her over with the car. This is her mother. She does get tomatoes for better. She also gets Standing Ovations from fordham, from georgetown, from a lot of Catholic Education speed is good to say, she really mapped out the Catholic College and universities, i can or as part of her tour was she presented at that point as her catholicism commune, very important part of her political ideology, if you want to call it that. Was she seen in that light, in 1963 in the United States . I assume to the extent that she was