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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

I watched the Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War for the third time this past week on Netflix. It was said that the Vietnam War was the first war that came into people’s living rooms, and for a young boy living in a northern city in Canada it was like the world came crashing through the door.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

The trans-Panama pipeline, which started operations in 2003, uses the same logic to transport oil, however the extra capacity it provides is only a few thousand barrels per day (Mb/d). The Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, featured a "Tanker War" between Iran and Iraq between the years of 1984 and 1987.

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