Theatre of War: Sophocles' Message for American Veterans
On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I went to see two classical Greek tragedies about the toll of war on the human psyche. General Joseph Dunford, Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Armed Forces, was in the audience at the National Geographic Society. So were a couple of hundred military officers and veterans, with their families. They were rapt when the Emmy-…