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March 19, 2009

Read banned memoirs: Criminal or Social Activist?

60’s, Book Review, Madison Wisconsin, Vietnam War

Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days, Madison, memoir, protests, riots, shame, social responsibility, Vietnam War

When Ayers was a young man, his outrage against the war drove him to the brink of anarchy. In his memoir, Fugitive Days, he chronicles his violent thoughts and actions in almost poetic detail. Even after reading the memoir, it’s hard for me to decide if he was a hero who risked his life to…

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Jerry Waxler
September 6, 2008

Awakening bad memories helps shape your new life

60’s, Coming of age, Madison Wisconsin, Trauma, Vietnam War

flashbacks, healing, history, Madison Wisconsin, protests, PTSD, Storytelling, Trauma, Vietnam War

The intern at the hospital who was accustomed to treating survivors of barroom brawls had no idea how violated I felt. Not wanting to order tests, he brushed off my headache. “Of course it hurts,” he said. “You were kicked in the head.”

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Jerry Waxler

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