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Reminiscences and a pictorial history of Mississippi State University's Old Main Dormitory.

It tells of the love affair between Prince Hasegawa, a young Japanese officer and Maria Antonieta, an older Spanish-Filipino woman, during the Second World. War. The events occur in a Sugar Central in the island of Negros, the Philippines, and the Japanese occupation and local guerillas condition their love. He doesn t speak English or Spanish, she doesn t speak Japanese. Opera is the medium that unites them. The story is seen through the eyes of the officer seven decades later, when he is a very old man. He promised he would come back for her but he never did. The wound is still open and the search to heal it embarks Hasegawa on a sentimental journey back to where their love flourished. This is also a story about dignity and human compassion in battle.

It is not about the Vietnam War nor veterans nor bikers that sociologist Michalowski and anthropologist, Dubisch (both North Arizona U.) write, but how the three combine with key elements of American culture such as freedom, individuality, and community to produce a ritual, a healing pilgrimage called the Run for the Wall. They accompanied the 1998 ride from southern California to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to draw attention to the prisoners of war and missing in action. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR