My brother and I both hate fireworks, because they sound like combat. He served in the Marines in Vietnam and I in the Army. Explosions still make us jumpy. So we spent the Fourth of July deep in a national park where such explosions are forbidden. When we returned to so-called civilization, we were horrified […]
Author Archives: Paul Woodruff, Texas Perspectives
Paul Woodruff is a distinguished teaching professor of philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1969-70 and has written on military ethics.