But here's shout-out, too, to intellectuals who would not be silenced Vaclav Havel, Czech playwright and anti- Soviet dissidents Natan Sharansky, Andrei Sakharov, Yelena Bonner, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn and British- American Robert Conquest chief among them.. ..…

When immigrants and native-born Americans rub “elbows in a common service to a common Fatherland,” claimed the assistant secretary of war, Henry Breckinridge, “out comes the hyphen — up goes the Stars and Stripes … Universal military service will be the elder brother of the public school in fusing..…