Tonight is the first event for the new book, and I've spent most of the afternoon at home with curlers in my hair and cucumber circles on the eyes...
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I haven't read it yet, but I'm familiar with Trudeau's work and am looking forward to this new book. It is, as far as I know, the only one of its kind, and sadly needed, both for the veterans and for those who don't know how to deal with them. If a little humor can help, then it's a blessing. But the long road to home will only be reached when the vastness of the sacrifice has been realized as
insignificant in the larger picture of an unnecessary, unprovoked, immoral and possibly illegal war. Such realization may lead to the repulsion of war for all time - and that's a good thing.
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The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time: A Doonesbury Book (Doonesbury Books) by G. B. Trudeau
madashell, October 13, 2006
I haven't read it yet, but I'm familiar with Trudeau's work and am looking forward to this new book. It is, as far as I know, the only one of its kind, and sadly needed, both for the veterans and for those who don't know how to deal with them. If a little humor can help, then it's a blessing. But the long road to home will only be reached when the vastness of the sacrifice has been realized asinsignificant in the larger picture of an unnecessary, unprovoked, immoral and possibly illegal war. Such realization may lead to the repulsion of war for all time - and that's a good thing.
(5 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)