Re-Visiting The English Patient
in the Americas still not identify, empathize, with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the globe? We will hear many reminders of Pearl Harbor, the sixty-year anniversary this month. The twelve hundred Americans who died [on the battleship, plus one thousand other military and 68 civilian casualities], victims of a surprise attack, mean more to us than the two hundred and five thousand civilians who died by US hands. I heard it on a great American television show. "All war is crime." Expand it a bit, this gift from The West Wing. "All acts of war are betrayals, crimes against humanity."
Sources: The English Patient, Vintage, 1992. The English Patient, Miramax, 1996. The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus. 1996.
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