{"id":10725,"date":"2019-12-05T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/?p=10725"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:15","slug":"bill-ehrhart-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2019\/12\/05\/bill-ehrhart-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ehrhart &#8217;73 and Soldiers for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/features.apmreports.org\/soldiers-for-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a radio documentary titled &#8220;Soldiers for Peace&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;by Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith via APM reports. The documentary (accessible below) details the participation of veterans and active duty soldiers in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/features.apmreports.org\/soldiers-for-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a rich didactic page with photos and excerpts<\/a> on the APM website.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10728\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Ehrhart_Bill.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10728\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Ehrhart_Bill.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Ehrhart '73\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Ehrhart &#8217;73<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The documentary includes&nbsp;Swarthmore alum, <a href=\"https:\/\/tripod.swarthmore.edu\/discovery\/search?query=any,contains,ehrhart&amp;tab=Everything&amp;search_scope=SC_All&amp;vid=01TRI_INST:SC&amp;offset=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writer, and poet<\/a> Bill Ehrhart &#8217;73, who was<a href=\"https:\/\/bulletin.swarthmore.edu\/bulletin-issue-archive\/index.html%3Fp=745.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a veteran<\/a> and student of Prof. Thompson Bradley, who passed away this semester. Earlier today, I <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2019\/12\/05\/thompson-bradley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted a poem Ehrhart wrote in honor of Bradley<\/a>. Another poem by Ehrhart and clips of interviews with him appears on <a href=\"https:\/\/features.apmreports.org\/soldiers-for-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the &#8220;Soldiers for Peace&#8221; page<\/a> about the radio documentary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Prof. Lee Smithey<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers for Peace &#8211; Part 1:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: solid 1px #dedede;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.stitcher.com\/splayer\/f\/481480\/65150748\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Soldiers for Peace &#8211; Part 2:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: solid 1px #dedede;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.stitcher.com\/splayer\/f\/481480\/65150747\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I listened to a radio documentary titled &#8220;Soldiers for Peace&#8221;&nbsp;by Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith via APM reports. The documentary (accessible below) details the participation of veterans and active duty soldiers in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. You can find a rich didactic page with photos and excerpts on the APM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2019\/12\/05\/bill-ehrhart-73\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Ehrhart &#8217;73 and Soldiers for Peace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,136,22,61,344,507,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10725"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions\/10777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}