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We don’t have to wonder what J.D Salinger would have thought of the world today even as Israel fights back mobs from Syria and prepares for more bloodlust from its enemies domestic and abroad. Salinger told it plainly and powerfully in his novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” published in 1951, and following that, in his 60 years of retreat into silence. He would have called his vow of silence, “The fire between the words.” ..... .... As part of the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Salinger was heroic at Utah Beach/D-Day and later at The Battle of the...

NORTH BERWICK, Maine — "The Catcher in the Rye" should remain in the high school curriculum, but parents should always have the right to contest their child reading it in class. Noble High School Principal Christian Elkington was responding Friday to a complaint that the book was inappropriate for freshman English classes, scheduled to read the 1951 J.D. Salinger novel in January. "We agreed upon that book," he said. "It’s been taught at Noble in the past. ... We (the administration) all remember reading it when we were in school." He said parents have raised questions over its content in...