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Re: More remarks on "The Last Act"
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Ken Yellis <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:05:57 EDT
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On Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:09:53 EST,
Barbara Weitbrecht, Smithsonian  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>My father recently remarked, with some astonishment, that what
>he remembered most of being in the war was how long it all seemed to
>take, and how utterly uneventful it had seemed at any given moment.
 
There is a line, and I cannot remember the precise language or recall
who said it, that defined war as long stretches of tedium relieved by
moments of sheer terror.
 
Ken Yellis
Assistant Director for Public Programs
Peabody Museum of Natural History
170 Whitney Avenue
Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
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