My Brother Sam is Dead: "In war the dead pay the debts for

My Brother Sam is Dead: "In war the dead pay the debts for the living."

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Happy Election Day! Today, Penn and new cohost Mijo discuss "My Brother Sam is Dead," by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier. While this book takes place during the Revolutionary War, Mijo discusses his own experience as a soldier and how the theme that "war is ugly" carries through time.

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