David Fox and Bruce Weigl — Sacrifice and Reconciliation
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Beauty of War
There seems to be a beauty or an obsession that can come with the experience of war. I have a poem in which I say it clearly and you make it beautiful no matter what. There's a way in which language can make the most horrible thing imaginable beautiful not because it celebrates that horror but because through the language I think the human spirit transcends that horror. We began talking about another child and then discovered that we couldn't have another child. So against the advice of the adoption agency I contacted some of my friends in Vietnam and a month later we basically got a call saying, "They have someone for you"
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