Since this post is mostly about war and history and how we forget important details2, here's a link to Lee Sandlin's massive 1997 essay for the Chicago Reader , "Losing the War." If you aren't into reading, you can listen to an excerpt read on This American Life here.3
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[1] I suppose that the administration will be thrilled to hear that the new SAT will stop testing analogies.
[2] When Sarah Vowell mentioned that she thought that the last perfect presidential candidate ran in 1860, someone later asked who it was.
[3] Speaking of Sarah Vowell -- her story about the Spanish-American War is in here too! And so is David Sedaris's comments about
