They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
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When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.Bruce Jackson
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
Bruce Jackson
We can't just be traipsing all over Africa looking for groups, ... If you have an idea of your parental lineage, it really helps to focus on where we should look genetically.
Bruce Jackson
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
Bruce Jackson
I want to see Miss Jackson go to jail for life. You took my childhood, a childhood I was supposed to have. I was so disappointed I will never get that back.
Bruce Jackson
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
Bruce Jackson
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