Sunday, December 02, 2007

In The Details


We all went up to Gettysburg, the summer of '63: and some of us came back from there: and that's all except the details.


- Captain Praxiteles Swan, American Civil War veteran, quoted in L.A. Tritle's From Melos To My Lai: War and Survival

There's a good chance my thesis is going to start with that quote.

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