https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7 Once we have finished reading the chapter, write the most interesting line that evokes emotions. Make sure to write your name, then the quote you chose. en-us 2022-01-21 14:32:28 UTC 2022-01-27 03:11:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011687301 You feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, you are filled with a hard, aching love for how the world could be and always should be, but now is not ]]> 2022-01-25 16:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011687301 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011687780 You crouch in ambush as a cool, impassive moon rises over the nighttime
paddies. You admire the fluid symmetries of troops on the move, the
harmonies of sound and shape and proportion, the great sheets of metalfire streaming down from a gunship, the illumination rounds, the white
phosphorus, the purply orange glow of napalm, the rocket's red glare. It's
not pretty, exactly. It's astonishing. It fills the eye. It commands you. You
hate it, yes, but your eyes do not. Like a killer forest fire, like cancer
under a microscope, any battle or bombing raid or artillery barrage has
the aesthetic purity of absolute moral indifference—a powerful,
implacable beauty—and a true war story will tell the truth about this,
though the truth is ugly]]> 2022-01-25 16:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011687780 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011687855 " And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight"]]> 2022-01-25 16:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011687855 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011688349 Rat Kiley was crying. He tried to say something, but then cradled his
rifle and went off by himself.]]> 2022-01-25 16:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011688349 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011689352 "Like a killer forest fire, like cancer under a microscope, any battle or bombing raid or artillery barrage has the aesthetic purity of absolute moral indifference-a powerful, implacable beauty-and a true war story will tell the truth about this through the truth id ugly." ]]> 2022-01-25 16:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011689352 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011694358 And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. it’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on the river when you know must cross the river and March into the mountains and do things your afraid to do. it’s about love and memory. It’s about sorrow. It’s about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.]]> 2022-01-25 16:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011694358 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011696539 "War is hell. As a moral declaration the old truism sounds perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can't believe it with my stomach. Nothing turns inside. It comes down to gut instinct. A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe."]]> 2022-01-25 16:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2011696539 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2012551848 "In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical. It's a question of credibility. Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn't, because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness."]]> 2022-01-26 02:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2012551848 https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2012648728 "You'd feel cheated if it never happened. Without the grounding reality,
it's just a trite bit of puffery, pure Hollywood, untrue in the way all such
stories are untrue. Yet even if it did happen—and maybe it did,
anything's possible—even then you know it can't be true, because a true
war story does not depend upon that kind of truth"]]> 2022-01-26 03:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsrussell1/vdssk00xyni6gxk7/wish/2012648728