My people, as many different anthropologists have referred to those whose lives we have shared and written about, are authors who started making books,
that is, organizing individual expression through an institution into a product then widely shared, because of the nation of Viet Nam. When you speak of Viet Nam and mean a war, I object,
but when you speak of the nation of Viet Nam and observe that its cause has occasioned one war after another, none may gainsay you. Oh, someone will,
just to have a fight. You know, to keep in practice for the next war. So, many of my authors have been the kind of people who involve themselves in war, who war reaches out and grabs,
bright and energetic young men who have not already been grabbed by some other institution, whether marriage or medical school. Here is my fourth note on just one of my people,
the anthropologist Glenn Petersen, who flew 70 combat missions over Ha Noi, in the back seat with the radio, before he started college. His book looks back to that beginning of his career in Micronesian area studies to consider war in general.
Please think about signing up for the public audience for these Viet Nam letters for free. Please do it only out of interest. My people want readers.
Whether you read or not please consider patronizing the others at $50/year. This is a charity, like church or the theater. Please consider subsidizing the whole operation at $250/year.
The war machine of the United States encourages you to deduct any gift from your income before tax because we offer you nothing in exchange we do not already give the world.
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My people, as many different anthropologists have referred to those whose lives we have shared and written about, are authors who started making books,
that is, organizing individual expression through an institution into a product then widely shared, because of the nation of Viet Nam. When you speak of Viet Nam and mean a war, I object,
but when you speak of the nation of Viet Nam and observe that its cause has occasioned one war after another, none may gainsay you. Oh, someone will,
just to have a fight. You know, to keep in practice for the next war. So, many of my authors have been the kind of people who involve themselves in war, who war reaches out and grabs,
bright and energetic young men who have not already been grabbed by some other institution, whether marriage or medical school. Here is my fourth note on just one of my people,
the anthropologist Glenn Petersen, who flew 70 combat missions over Ha Noi, in the back seat with the radio, before he started college. His book looks back to that beginning of his career in Micronesian area studies to consider war in general.
Please think about signing up for the public audience for these Viet Nam letters for free. Please do it only out of interest. My people want readers.
Whether you read or not please consider patronizing the others at $50/year. This is a charity, like church or the theater. Please consider subsidizing the whole operation at $250/year.
The war machine of the United States encourages you to deduct any gift from your income before tax because we offer you nothing in exchange we do not already give the world.