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[https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540629611/even-in-the-war-to-end-all-wars-there-was-art-coming-from-the-trenches by Susan Stamberg 1/8/17 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540629611/even-in-the-war-to-end-all-wars-there-was-art-coming-from-the-trenches by Susan Stamberg 1/8/17 npr] | ||
The Americans didn't arrive until three years into the war and fought for less than a year. They joined French, Russian, British and other troops fighting Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. World War I was the first "modern" industrial war with large numbers of tanks, heavy artillery and planes. Tragically, it was also a war of trenches. | The Americans didn't arrive until three years into the war and fought for less than a year. They joined French, Russian, British and other troops fighting Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. World War I was the first "modern" industrial war with large numbers of tanks, heavy artillery and planes. Tragically, it was also a war of trenches. | ||
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WAR===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/browne/protests.html by MALCOLM W. BROWNE PBS] | |||
Because of what I knew of the Buddhist tradition in Vietnam, I realized that it had to be taken seriously. So while other correspondents got tired of the endless Buddhist street demonstrations that were going on all that summer, I stuck with them, because I had the sense that sooner or later something would happen. I became a familiar presence at the main pagoda in Saigon. The monks knew that I appreciated their cuisine. We were friendly. One of them was a Yale graduate, as a matter of fact. And I was sincerely interested in what they were doing, quite aside from the news value of it. | |||
