Patriotic Dissent Oceanography (seas & oceans) there was a big party

there was a big party on the farm to celebrate the Vietnamese New Year

was among the essential chroniclers of the city […] Boom Times is both a celebration of a prodigious talent and a valediction for a lost soul

and hanging around with his friends—just like lots of other Americans

For the next ten days the commander of this expedition

Kubi lived quietly in a small farm in a Vietnamese village

Patriotic Dissent Oceanography (seas & oceans) there was a big partyWhat is patriotism in our volatile age? This incendiary work by Danny Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a once model U. S. Army officer and West Point graduate who became a military dissenter while still on active duty. Set against the backdrop of the terror wars of the last two decades, Sjursen asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces entitled exceptionalism and narcissistic jingoism. Once a burgeoning believer and