Tag: Standing Down
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May 15, 2015
Many thanks to Dr. Jim Thurman, HMU alumnus, for today’s book review. It originally appeared in HMU’s May 2015 newsletter.
Whitfield, Donald H., ed. Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian. Chicago: Great Books Foundation, 2013. Print.
You are Odysseus! Ah, dear child! I could not see you until now… -The Odyssey, Book 19
Reading histories of the world’s various nations and peoples,