1876 by Gore Vidal6/1/2023 Republican Party during our generation's nonage-all conspired to put us off the patriot game. The reasons are not far to seek: the Depression ("They put a rifle in his hand.They shouted Hip Hooray.But look at him today") the goose-stepping nationalist frenzy of the Nazis and Fascists in Europe the virtual eclipse of the With its cruel, unusual and vindictive punishment of the unpatriotic hero, failed to put a lump in our throats no matter how often we were made to swallow its dreadful nonsense. And Edward Everett Hale's cautionary tale, "The Man Without a Country," uniforms who orated at the school assembly for Flag Day and Armistice Day. Were apt to snicker over the tremolo of the World War I vets in bedizened V.F.W. 3, 1925) was particularly distrustful of patriotic rhetoric. Ore Vidal's and my generation (he was born at West Point, Oct. Ma1876: A Centennial Novel for the Bicentennial By JULIAN MOYNAHAN 1876: A Centennial Novel for the Bicentennial
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