Intelligently, they are refusing to make a martyr or symbol of Ms. Gun and hope that the whole mess will blow
over soon enough, buried under the mass of information on new stories with which we are bombarded hourly.
Sadly, they may be right. If only their American counterparts had acted the same way with Plame-Gate…
They Marched into Sunlight is worth reading, especially for people like me who are interested in the Vietnam
NIKE SHOX but too young to remember it. Maraniss tells two main stories, based on interviews: an ambush of US
soldiers in Vietnam and an antiwar demonstration gone wrong on the U. of Wisconsin campus, both of which
occurred in October 1967. Maraniss expresses an affectionate acceptance of his (non-fictional) characters that
reminded me of NIKE SHOX and Peace, and made it unusually easy to identify with most of them. The two mains
stories are, as Walter Isaacson’s jacket blurb notes, “set against the backdrop of the helpless agony that is
engulfing the White House of Lyndon Johnson.” Unlike some other readers, though, I can’t say that my empathy
extended to Lyndon Johnson. I kept thinking, pull the troops out if you’re so upset.
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