Jon Oplinger

He flunked out of college in 1965, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1966, and was shipped off to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become the commodity a wartime army most quickly expends - the rifle platoon leader. Drawing from his memories and the battalion's radio log, former lieutenant Jon Oplinger recounts the dread, fear, and bewilderment of the everyday life of a grunt. Follow him through the Central Highlands of Vietnam as he chronicles the daily struggle to stay alive. From the "Benning School for Boys" to the battlefields of Vietnam, the author discovers that there are no heroes: only survivors.

Memoir of a Rifle Platoon Leader in the Mountains of Vietnam

Quang Tri Cadence

Ch. 10 (pp. 204-253), "The Holocaust, " approaches the Holocaust as an extreme case of "mass production of deviance, " similar to previous social manifestations of state production of "enemies" and conspiracies (e.g. the McCarthy era, the Stalinist Great Purge). Focuses on Hitler's obsession with a Jewish conspiracy, his concern with the necessity for a demonized inner enemy, the significance of the "Kristallnacht, " and the crusade for "racial purity." Discusses Nazi ideology that justified the Final Solution and the organizational structure of the "bureaucratization of violence" through the euthanasia policy, the organization of the SS and Einsatzgruppen, and the establishment of concentration camps.

The European Witchcraze and the Mass Production of Deviance

The Politics of Demonology

Elizabeth Cooke

The Little People were a happy and peaceful clan who lived in the crater of a wonderful volcano. There, they were surrounded by their favorite smellssweet sulfur, in particularand were always warm and comfortable. It was safe there, too, because the predators stayed away, which was very important for the Little People, each of them no more than twelve inches tall. Then, one terrible day, things begin to go wrong. The hiss of steam in their happy home comes less and less. The sweet sulfur fades, growing weaker by the day. Their volcano is dying; soon, it will no longer be a safe, warm, comfortable place to call home. The Little People are forced to flee, and they find themselves in a Maine mill town, lost and afraid. How will they survive? Who will come to their aid in this strange, new land? Luckily, two curious kids, Timothy and Xandre, discover the Little People and befriend the strange clan. With the help of their new friendsplus a helpful grandma and a friendly dogthe Little People might be safe after all, despite the absence of sulfur and heat. At a chaotic town meeting, the fates of the Little People will be ultimately decided.

Jon Oplinger

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