I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.
No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.
Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.
