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Charles Phillips
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, has written a new book—Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. The book is remarkable in two ways, only one of them intended. For me, the unintended sub-text for this work is that the book’s contents are a strong argument that a relatively benevolent supreme being must be watching over Earthlings. She will
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The Sharpshooter 1862-1864
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“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG
PROLOGUE
"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.”
― The Sharpshooter 1862-1864
PROLOGUE
"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.”
― The Sharpshooter 1862-1864
“JAKE BAKER JOINING THE UNION ARMY IN NEW ORLEANS
"I'd prefer to be back in Texas, taking aim at the Rebs..., but I just can't do that," said Jake. ..."So, I'll just do what I can do, I guess."
"I suspect that goes for all of us," said the Colonel. "Maybe we should make that the unit's motto. 'The First Texas Cavalry of the United States of America: We'll just do what we can do, we guess.' It does have a ring to it, but I expect that we need somethin' a bit more inspirational and less true.”
― The Sharpshooter 1862-1864
"I'd prefer to be back in Texas, taking aim at the Rebs..., but I just can't do that," said Jake. ..."So, I'll just do what I can do, I guess."
"I suspect that goes for all of us," said the Colonel. "Maybe we should make that the unit's motto. 'The First Texas Cavalry of the United States of America: We'll just do what we can do, we guess.' It does have a ring to it, but I expect that we need somethin' a bit more inspirational and less true.”
― The Sharpshooter 1862-1864
“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG
PROLOGUE
"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.”
― The Sharpshooter 1862-1864
PROLOGUE
"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.”
― The Sharpshooter 1862-1864
“THE SHARPSHOOTER AT GETTYSBURG
As he grew more and more parched, waiting near the Emmitsburg Road that reached up to Gettysburg, Jake thought of peaches and water, until he saw movement across the way, near a pile of wooden fence rails. Rebel skirmishers had been using those rails as cover all morning. Jake set the rear trigger of his Sharps. He prepared to barely caress its forward trigger, the hair trigger, as he waited for a chance to kill someone Jake knew, in all likelihood, was not so different from himself.”
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As he grew more and more parched, waiting near the Emmitsburg Road that reached up to Gettysburg, Jake thought of peaches and water, until he saw movement across the way, near a pile of wooden fence rails. Rebel skirmishers had been using those rails as cover all morning. Jake set the rear trigger of his Sharps. He prepared to barely caress its forward trigger, the hair trigger, as he waited for a chance to kill someone Jake knew, in all likelihood, was not so different from himself.”
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Aug 08, 2013 10:07AM
See Phillips review of J. Scahill's DIRTY WARS. More commentary than review
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