God and War Stories. Ep. 15

“I had at least thought there would be nobility in war. I know it exists. There are so many stories, and some of them have ...

An episode of the Jesuitical podcast, hosted by America Media, titled "God and War Stories. Ep. 15" was published on June 2, 2017 and runs 34 minutes.

June 2, 2017 ·34m · Jesuitical

Summary

“I had at least thought there would be nobility in war. I know it exists. There are so many stories, and some of them have to be true. But I see mostly normal men, trying to do good, beaten down by horror, by their inability to quell their own rages, by their masculine posturing and their so-called hardness, their desire to be tougher, and therefore crueler, than their circumstance. And yet, I have this sense that this place is holier than back home. Gluttonous, fat, oversexed, overconsuming, materialist home, where we’re too lazy to see our own faults.” That’s just a sample of the stinging and raw prose found in Phil Klay’s collection of short stories, Redeployment. Klay, a veteran of the Iraq war and recipient of the National Book Award, sat down with us to talk about Memorial Day, why we find it diffi [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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