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Valley News - Column: An honest, tragic recollection of a dreadful war


Column: An honest, tragic recollection of a dreadful war
Steve Nelson
Modified: 5/22/2021 10:20:12 PM
Brilliant political cartoonist Jeff Danziger has written a crackerjack new book titled
Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War Memoir. It will be available July 6, but I was fortunate to read an advance copy. The book is a rollicking, honest, cynical and, at times, tragic recollection of that dreadful and deceitful war.
The Vermont-born and -raised Danziger, whose award-winning cartoons have appeared in newspapers around the world, captures the sustained futility of the war effort and the profound ambivalence of those who were sent on the fool’s errand. “Draftees hated those who escaped the draft; escapees hated anyone who reminded them of their cowardly good luck,” he writes. “And of course blacks and whites, even those who could get along in civilian life, hated each other. I suppose some Protestants hated some Catholics, and somebody had to hate the Jew ....

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