by Jeb Wyman | Jun 2, 2018 | Commentary, Economy and business, Film, Jeb Wyman
The Florida Project opens with the camera three feet off the ground, eye-level with children sitting in the Florida sun, their backs against the pink stucco wall of the decaying motel where they live. The kids conspire to make their way to the second-floor breezeway...
by Jeb Wyman | Dec 1, 2017 | Jeb Wyman, Veterans
One of the more harrowing scenes in David Finkel’s incredible book Thank You For Your Service takes place in Adam Schumann’s basement. It’s the middle of the afternoon. Schumann sits by the furnace, a loaded shotgun under his chin, safety off and his finger on the...
by Jeb Wyman | Nov 11, 2017 | Jeb Wyman, Veterans
Before it was it was renamed “Veterans Day” in 1954, America commemorated Armistice Day. That started in 1919, one year to the day after the Armistice of Compiègne ended the industrial warfare that had killed 10 million young men with machine gun fire, artillery...
by Jeb Wyman | Oct 13, 2017 | Jeb Wyman, Veterans
The climactic scene of Ben Fountain’s excellent novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk takes place in the middle of a Dallas Cowboys football game. Billy and the rest of his platoon, fresh from vicious combat in Iraq and being put on display around the...