>One of my favorite English profs was wounded at Anzio beach on D-Day, was fiercely pro-labor, and could bring the class to tears while reading Shakespeare or Edna St Vincent Millay.
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>He was my kind of liberal.

Roger Waters' father died in that battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Tigers_Broke_Free
Coincidentally, Roger Waters is considering giving a performance of "The Wall" at the US-Mexico border.
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