• Quantico, Guantanamo

  Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:49 PM | By Emily Yoffe
  
  
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  I just caught up with the essay in the New York Times Magazine by writer Anne Bernays about her dismay at her grandson, David, becoming a Marine. His decision was an incomprehensible turn of events for Bernays. After all, she writes, she is a liberal Jew who raised her family in Cambridge, Mass. Her children went to the "best schools." They had "no money worries." In other words, people like this simply do not produce Marines. At David's graduation, she has a conflicted sense of pride in his accomplishments. But nowhere does she question ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
  
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