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Article: Father & son, God & country. (author James Carroll)(Interview)(Cover Story)
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- Commonweal
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- May 23, 1997
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An interview with James Carroll
Joseph and James Carroll were casualties of the Vietnam War - a father and a son who, like many of their respective generations, were torn apart by the battles that raged at home, forever divided in their clash of loyalties. In his haunting memoir, An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came between Us (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, $12, 280 pp.), James Carroll tells the story of their struggle which revolved around fiercely different understandings of God and country, faith and honor.
Joseph Carroll was a reserved man, sure of his own authority and the system that had given him extraordinary success. He was an ...