What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, June 18, 2007
the longest day, indeed
Fascinating article on the "Beast of Omaha," a German soldier who was in a machine gun nest on Omaha Beach, Normandy on D-Day in 1944. He fired over 12,000 rounds and probably killed around 3,000 G.I.s.
