Article: Some war stories are better than others.(Nation)(Pruden On Politics)

Robert E. Lee was right. "It is well that war is so terrible," Marse Robert remarked wistfully as he watched from Marye's Heights as the battle of Fredericksburg unfolded beneath him. "We shouldn't grow too fond of it."

The guys at CBS News love it so much, in fact, they took a crew back to Vietnam 32 years later to fight again at Thanh Phong. The New York Times loves war so much that the editors even signed on to soldier along with the battle-hardened guys at CBS News, to soak up tips from really authentic journalists about how to cover a big story. That was so much fun CBS even rebroadcast an old "60 Minutes" look at My Lai.

That's how the ...

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