A multi-pronged commentary on police militarization and Ferguson Missouri....And some people I have known. “Sometimes, it seems that everyone likes to imagine being a part of the military. . . . It must be great fun to imagine yourself a soldier without the risk of physical, mental, or moral damage,” wrote Paul Fussell, a veteran of infantry combat in World War II, in a chapter on “Weirdos” in his book, Uniforms: You are What You Wear. “These people, having missed World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, never tasted the thrill of being machine-gunned and mortared and thus escaped, unlike former ground troops, lifelong bodily and spiritual damage,” Fussell wrote. “Not having endured real military experience, they get excited by faking it.” Fussell’s scorn was directed not at the police but at people dressing like G.I. JOE with far less serious repercussions: war re-enactors, couture design wearing models strutting down the runway in military-derived designs, hipsters wearing surplus Eisenhower jackets at coffee shops. vanityfair/online/daily/2014/08/veterans-ferguson-matthew-farwell
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:58:30 +0000
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