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New World Notes - The Slippery Slope of Memorial Day
This week on New World Notes: radio program #324, May 20, 2014, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. (and on Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.), host Kenneth Dowst offers an anti-war, anti-militarism perspective on Memorial Day.
Journalist Robert Fisk explains that (and why) there's been no "Good War" after 1945. K.D. reads Howard Zinn's famous 1976 column on Memorial Day (which got Zinn fired from the Boston Globe). K.D. also reads and demolishes the beloved war poem, "In Flanders Fields." Plus Steppenwolf's classic antiwar song of the 1970s, "Monster."
This program was originally broadcast in May 2009. Fisk talk courtesy of TUC Radio. Zinn essay, "Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day?"--and much other good stuff--from The Zinn Reader (Seven Stories Press, 1997).
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