Some artists witnessed the war up close.
Some saw the war up close.
Liberation was the means to dress war up as legitimate.
He wanted to see the war up close.
I saw the brutality of war up close.
But even though America is in the midst of a bloody shooting war, up until last week that had not been an issue.
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And after the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992 he firmly took on Daryl Gates and the whole city police department, forcing reforms on them.The rough and the smoothUnlike most of the Clintonistas he had seen war up close, observing the desperate, aimless crowds in ruined Japan as a naval ensign in 1945.
Army officials point out that the sizable population that has had three or more tours — about 20 percent of the active-duty force — includes those in support and headquarters units who do not face the same pressures as those who fight war up close.
He himself later described his guerrilla band's theater of operations: We were having sort of a miscellaneous war, up there, through Fentress County, Tennessee, and Clinton County, Kentucky, and all through that region … Each of us had from 20 to 30 proscribed enemies, and it was regarded as legitimate to kill them at any time, at any place, under any circumstances.
