In the book "fighting on two fronts," by James E. ... The contributions of African Americans in Vietnam were recognized and appreciated, even though they were often sent to the front in place of their white brothers in arms. With less than ten percent of American military force in Vietnam being African Americans there was a surprising number of African Americans that were put on the front lines in the thick of the fighting. ...

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On the foreign front, the draft was tearing young men from their homes as soon as graduated from high school. ... The first two lines of the next verse are the most astonishing lines for the listener to hear in a song. ... This point is enforced in his next lines, "For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. ...

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In Susan Farrell's "Vonnegut and Postmodernism", Farrell explains the postmodernism period as an era that is characterized by de-canonization; blur lines between high and low art., irony, indeterminacy, and metafictional; self-reflexivity. ... In these lines the speaker repeats the word "black" twice, "My black face fades,hiding inside the black granite" (1-2), in connection both to his own skin tone and the memorial's color. ... It is the deeper meaning that motivates his passionate response in the next lines: "I said I wouldn't/dammit: No tea...

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