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petermarcusHere's a quote from historian Stephen Ambrose, in the book Band of Brothers about the US 101st Airborne during World War II:
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[Private] Webster [a Harvard English Lit. major] went back to the road to get in on the shooting. A German turned to fire back. "What felt like a baseball bat slugged my right leg," Webster recalled, "spun me around, and knocked me down." All he could think to say was, "They got me!" which even then seemed to him "an inadequate and unimaginative cliche." (Like all writers, he was composing his description of the event as it happened.)
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That last sentence, added by Ambrose, seems to me to sum up LJ pretty well :) We're not soldiers (not all of us, anyway), but how many times have you composed LJ entries IRL as stuff was happening?
Back from Omaha, the wedding was nice.
The very rough draft of my business plan is done. Time to start blue-penciling it.
I have this introspective post brewing about nostalgia and roots, very Ambrose-esque. Unfortunately, I gotta put it on hold as I'm too tired to do anything but drool into my keyboard.
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[Private] Webster [a Harvard English Lit. major] went back to the road to get in on the shooting. A German turned to fire back. "What felt like a baseball bat slugged my right leg," Webster recalled, "spun me around, and knocked me down." All he could think to say was, "They got me!" which even then seemed to him "an inadequate and unimaginative cliche." (Like all writers, he was composing his description of the event as it happened.)
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That last sentence, added by Ambrose, seems to me to sum up LJ pretty well :) We're not soldiers (not all of us, anyway), but how many times have you composed LJ entries IRL as stuff was happening?
Back from Omaha, the wedding was nice.
The very rough draft of my business plan is done. Time to start blue-penciling it.
I have this introspective post brewing about nostalgia and roots, very Ambrose-esque. Unfortunately, I gotta put it on hold as I'm too tired to do anything but drool into my keyboard.
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Date: 2002-09-01 07:18 pm (UTC)hehe
Ok...I'll go back to hiding now.
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It was a clean wound. The bullet went in and out Webster's calf, hitting no bone. A million dollar wound. I got it made, he thought to himself. When medic Eugene Roe got to him, Webster had a big grin on his face.
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It's an interesting book, cuz it's from the soldiers' point of view, not the generals'. The soldiers were absolutely terrified, and getting wounded (and not killed) was considered a ticket away from the front line for a few weeks.
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Date: 2002-09-01 08:27 pm (UTC)edges
Date: 2002-09-01 08:32 pm (UTC)it changes something in me to see the post in lifes twists...