WWII started out , on all sides, with at least this in agreement : in part, it was to be a military conflict fought out exclusively between various groups of physically healthy, literate , law-abiding, heterosexual, white men.
Which is to say, the military part of the war was to be exclusively between 'civilized men'.
All the rest of us, the vast majority of us : children, women, 4Fs, colored folks of all kinds, queers , cripples, crooks - on and on - were to remain nearly inert and invisible : acted upon rather than actors.
Just part of the neutral (natural world) backdrop to this ongoing human drama happening under the stage lights.
Which is to say, the military part of the war was to be exclusively between 'civilized men'.
All the rest of us, the vast majority of us : children, women, 4Fs, colored folks of all kinds, queers , cripples, crooks - on and on - were to remain nearly inert and invisible : acted upon rather than actors.
Just part of the neutral (natural world) backdrop to this ongoing human drama happening under the stage lights.
