We are delighted to announce that Issue n. 6 (2023), Close Encounters in War and Propaganda: The Battles for Hearts and Minds, is online.
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Issue n. 6 (2023), Close Encounters in War and Propaganda: The Battles for Hearts and Minds
“I’m not letting him, or any other gook sonovabitch get anywhere close to me. Especially near my eyes!”
This conversation was going nowhere fast, but he didn’t have the option of choosing another surgeon; it was the only specialist available in this region for the relatively rare ocular condition that was slowly blinding my 80-year-old combat veteran therapy patient. Dr. Kim’s highly respected reputation mattered not. As it were, he happened to be of Chinese ethnicity.
That was all Don needed to know. He had served with the “Triple Nickel” 555th Military Police Battalion during the Korean War. From the outset, he was clear that he was still filled with rage towards his former enemy. Curiously, he reserved his deepest vitriol not for the North Koreans, but for their Chinese allies who had joined the effort to push the Americans off the peninsula and into the sea…
We present in this section a collection of testimonies and short essays from veterans, therapists, witnesses, practitioners and others who have experienced close encounters in war in person or through their work and connections.
Ivan Choopa: Crimes (April 3, 2024)
David Klein: Better You Than Me (March 3, 2024)
Lawrence Markworth: The Wall (February 1, 2024)
Edward Tick: Warrior Retreats on a Small Greek Island (December 5, 2023)
Everett Cox: What He Did Not Say Then (April 11, 2023)
Everett Cox: Suicide monologue (May 14, 2021)
David Klein: Soul Operation (February 24, 2021)
Kate Dahlstedt: Wave (December 27, 2020)
Thayer Greene: My “Close Encounters” in World War 2 Combat (December 27, 2020)
Pat Guariglia: From a U.S. Marine to His Vietnamese Counterparts, with an Introduction by Edward Tick (December 27, 2020)
Close Encounters in War 