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War in America

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"A war worker in Phoenix writing to thank her Navy boyfriend in New Guinea for sending her a Japanese soldier's skull, which she named "Tojo"; from LIFE magazine, May 22, 1943"

This photo illustrated Paul Kennedy's review of Niall Ferguson's latest book in the New York Review of Books.

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Criticism is fine. But don't forget that the things that Navy seaman did, brutal as they were, made it possible for all you navel-gazers to... well,
- gaze at your navels and write vapid thoughts.

There's a direct, unbroken line between the two.

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