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Ketwigs fadeout at the dedication of the vietnam memorial wall in washington, along with other veterans standing in a hard rain, brings a lump to the throat. Hard rain, eislers second john rain novel, more than fulfills the promise of the first. Another recovered war memoir this one with a first printing of 15,000 is john ketwigs. And a hard rain fell, john ketwigs memoir of his time in southeast asia is a crucial book to read for an understanding of the fog of war and the spiritual wounds all veterans face. Sds and why it failed traces these activists in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the new left\s dissolution flowed directly from sds\s failure to break with traditional american notions of race, sex, and empire. I needed to get vietnam out into the open, but i couldnt talk about it. A good question, and one, which ketwig comes back to in various forms. These idealistic radicals called themselves the new left, a name that proclaimed separation fro.
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