Tag Archive '894'

With thanks to our Veterans

Bookworm on Nov 11 2007 | Filed under: Military

Although, tomorrow, November 12, is the “official” Veterans’ Day, so that federal and state offices, courts and schools can shut down, today is the real Veterans’ Day. In 1918, World War I officially ended on the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month. By the time that clock stopped ticking, [...]

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Thinking like a soldier

Bookworm on Nov 03 2007 | Filed under: Art

One of my all time favorite books is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory. In it, Fussell looks at the World War I through the eyes of the hyper-literate soldier poets and writers whose names we still recognize today: Rupert Brooks, who died before his fellow literary artists began to realize [...]

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