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Life During Wartime: Graphic observations about living in a garrison body politic.

—By Joshua Brown

| Fri Feb. 25, 2005 12:00 AM PST

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Joshua Brown is executive director of the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project at The City University of New York. See more of his work in the Life During Wartime series here.

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