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If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to battle, they'd eat first.
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that. I was a boy; I didn't find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam War.
We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.