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Vietnam War

Veterans Ceremony

Consider War Stories Without Romanticizing Them

November 11, 2018 by Thomas G. Palaima

For as long as there have been wars — which in human history is forever — there have been stories about war. They stretch back to Homer’s riveting epic songs of the battlefield — the “Iliad” — and of returning home from it — the “Odyssey.” They come forward in truly sensitive films like Richard […]

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