Books and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. Ou have got a great place here we are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just turned over several Hundred Acres to the national park. Ervice a lot going on at Champion Hill. We are going to talk about that battle in particular. The larger Vicksburg Campaign just a little bit. I do not have powerpoint either. I am a little oldfashioned. We do have a map, which we will talk about a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i do powerpoint and completely
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Unlike Japan, the British voted the Imphal-Kohima battle as the most crucial in their history, ahead of Waterloo and Normandy, in a 2013 poll conducted by the National Army Museum
May 8, 2021
In early April, the Mainichi Shimbun ran two articles about the permeation of wartime terminology into everyday language. How far should this wartime terminology be tolerated, it asked. Should reporters be referred to figuratively as “
heitai” (soldiers)?
Mainichi offers such examples as referring to reporters without a specific assignment as “
yūgun” (reserves). Or, when reporters are split into separate groups to cover the same story, they are referred to as “
ichi-banki” (squad 1) and “
ni-banki” (squad 2). And when breaking news takes place, on-the-scene dispatches are issued by the newspaper’s “
zensen honbu” (front-line headquarters.)
Waseda University professor Reiko Tsuchiya, an authority on media history, traced the practice of using military jargon back to the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5, a time when Japan’s armed forces fought large-scale battles at sea, and the use of new weaponry like machine guns put the conflict at