tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post5085254654551669586..comments2024-03-29T07:49:20.875-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Flashback 2004: 'For us, it's saddest day of the year'Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43277158368211710562021-04-15T22:18:59.391-05:002021-04-15T22:18:59.391-05:00Excellent book. Excellent book. FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-75187473264278058082021-04-15T16:19:14.195-05:002021-04-15T16:19:14.195-05:00Reminds me of the mention in Wade Davis's Into...Reminds me of the mention in Wade Davis's Into the Silence in which he quotes an upper class woman who early in World War I, says, "I just realized that every man I had ever danced with was dead."<br /><br />john<br />tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-6188278565165557672021-04-15T14:50:54.010-05:002021-04-15T14:50:54.010-05:00Terrible as they have been, America has never endu...Terrible as they have been, America has never endured comparable military losses. The French suffered more man killed at Verdon than we did in both world wars. After the most decisive military engagement in history, when Hannibal wiped out a larger Roman army at Cannae, it was said every Roman household grieved the loss of a son or husband or brother. <br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.com