David blight dance facebook7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() History has already judged the Vietnam War and I am not sure how Australia’s interference in a civil war that it had nothing to do with was an act of self-defence. He wondered whether he will be seen as someone “who fought selflessly for their country? Or will they now look to him as a potential war criminal and murderer?“ In response to the veteran who expressed concern that the judgment on Ben Roberts-Smith might impact how his children and grandchildren view his service in the Vietnam War (Letters, 3/6). David Raymond, Doncaster East The pain that foreign forces inflict on other countries A corporal who was in charge of a section of Special Air Service Regiment professionals who, from my limited understanding of the structure of these things, were an autonomous unit. So, according to your correspondent, Ben Roberts-Smith was “just a corporal” (Letters, 3/6). ![]() ![]() Roberts-Smith was more than ’just a corporal’ We should turn the gaze towards our political leaders who decided to support our allies and go to war and, more importantly, how we repatriate these damaged souls, these “poor buggers” when they return to Australia. Rather than hounding Roberts–Smith and ruining his ongoing life, we need to reflect upon the judgment of our involvement in such a bloody mess of a war. The “fog of war” is something few of us will ever experience. Their exposure for long periods, fighting an enemy who is often impossible to identify, must desensitise their judgment and quite clearly their souls. Nevertheless, these hardened, trained killers are exactly that. The media revelation was appropriate and correct and I am delighted that the truth has been revealed via his ill-conceived defamation trial. I do not support Ben Roberts-Smith, but I still feel some sympathy for him and his colleagues. ![]() Julie Carrick, Leopold Condemn our political leaders who took us to war He deserves no recognition at all at the Australian War Memorial. Also the fear he invoked in them when he tried to prevent them from testifying about his violence. Perhaps the testimony of those who served with Ben Roberts-Smith, who had to deal with the treatment he inflicted on Afghan civilians, and who were afraid of him, could be included. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted or exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind.“ Listen to David Blight’s interview on NPR and find out more about Frederick Douglass’s past on Jan.Kim Beazley, chairman of the War Memorial Council, says: “We are carefully considering the additional content and context to be included in these displays.” Perhaps they should start with these words from the Geneva Convention: “No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war. He has been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. In this “cinematic and deeply engaging” ( The New York Times Book Review ) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historians have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers.įrederick Douglass spoke in Portsmouth in 1862 at the Temple, which would later become the site of The Music Hall. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History.Ī New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time Top 10 Book of the Yearĭon’t miss hearing from David Blight, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. This reception is open to Patron-level members and up. 7pm - Writers on a New England Stage eventĨpm - Post-show Reception begins. ![]()
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