Tad Tuleja
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A final thought, in the form of a poem for Memorial Day.
The final episode, part dream, part memory, part invention.To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts with me, I'd be happy to hear from you. You can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.com.
Revisiting the notion of "embedded pictures" that I raised early in the podcast, I try to come to terms again with seeing American history as if in double exposure.
Reflections on the cliche "Nation of Immigrants"To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.com.
Are we reverting to the Tribal Twenties? A sobering look at how patriotism is appropriated and weaponized by opportunists.
Patriotism in its louder and angrier mood: triumphalism. With thoughts on Samuel Johnson's famous characterization of patriotism as "the last refuge of a scoundrel." To the listener: If you'd like to share thoughts about this podcast, I invite
Reflections on patriotism's sacrificial mood and on its ultimate expression: soldiers' willingness to give up their lives for their country. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at
Beginning a new sequence of episodes focusing on the uses--and abuses--of patriotism, I discuss in this episode the connection of patriotism to images of "home" and its appearance in its most appealing mode, that of self-sacrifice. To the liste
A last reflection on the war that I avoided, as I attempt to read the faces of three men who fought it. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.com. Thanks for liste
I have few regrets about not going to Vietnam, but the ones I do have are worth remembering. I discuss them in this episode.To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.c
Reflections on military comradeship--and on the "brothers in arms" that many soldiers say is what they're really fighting for. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yaho
America's most unpopular war counted among its discontents not only home-front protestors but also some of those who were doing the fighting. This episode focuses on what they later said about their service. To the listener: If you'd like to sh
All wars are ugly. This episode explores the special ugliness of conflicts in which distinguishing between combatants and civilians is nearly impossible. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can
What Vietnam veterans' memoirs tell us about the "little cruelties" of the war zone. And a question: What would I have done in those soldiers' place? To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can em
Battling Vietnam-era stereotypes of the American soldier: Hippies spitting on veterans versus "Kill anything that moves." To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.com
After a decade and a half of turning away from thoughts about Vietnam, I am inspired by a new war to rethink what had happened there, and I begin trying to imagine Vietnam from the perspective of those who went there. To the listener: If you'd
A decade and a half of trying to forget about Vietnam while looking to Hollywood for stories that might help it make sense. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.c
A last look at the Vietnam War as its memory was still fresh, through the perspective of a song written one week after the fall of Saigon. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at t
A two-year self-imposed exile in Europe presents the opportunity to apply an Old World perspective to America and its involvement in Vietnam. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at
The role of fear in decisions to go--or not to go--to war. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.com. Thanks for listening.
How getting out of the war with a medical disqualification seemed both "the right thing to do" and a move that has taken me decades to fully "own." To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can emai
Weighing the options facing young men in the 1960s upon being drafted for a war they considered unjust. To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.com. Thanks for liste
Reflections on the congeries of 1960s idealists and antiwar malcontents who spoke of themselves collectively as "The Movement."To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yah
The American dilemma and the interracial music scene in Fair Ithaca, New York, ca. 1967.To the listener: If you'd like to share your thoughts about this podcast with me, you can email me at tftuleja@yahoo.com. Thanks for listening.
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