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Robert F. Sommer

Robert F. Sommer is the author of Losing Francis: Essays on the Wars at Home (Fomite Press, 2018).

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Mar 27, 2018
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A father helps his daughter hold flowers before putting them onto headstones of family members after the Fort Logan VA National Cemetery Veterans Day Ceremony at Fort Logan National Cemetery on November 11, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.
Op-Ed
War & Peace

One-Hundred Years Later, It’s Time to Disarm Armistice Day

Veterans Day has become a celebration of war-machine porn, unlike its somber beginnings in the Armistice Day.
by
Robert F. Sommer,
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November 12, 2018
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Op-Ed

Fifteen Years in Iraq: There Was No Place Safe There, or Here

The quagmire is now wider and deeper by magnitudes.
by
Robert F. Sommer,
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March 19, 2018
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