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 [log in to unmask] (203) 432-9891/9816(fax)