Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Myitkyina station, recognizable only by untidy heaps of shrapnel-torn cars and scarred trees, the homesick locomotive man jiggled his train off over two streaks of rust into the thick, green jungle. Scaring up small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left...
On the shore where the stiff white crosses mark a design for eternity, And the infantry of sleep is forever enrolled in silence, And the lives of men are but numbers, and an alien wind Comes up to the beaches, caressing The fallen sons of men of a distant country...
The grandchildren lived on the out skirts of the old peoples' world, watching with awe the unchanging routine and deep-set beliefs of Grandmother, Nannie and Uncle Jimbilly. But away from this dying world they danced with the freedom of the new generation around the family graves that Grandmother...
Skulls and Buzzing Flies. Kudriavtsev led us to some large, open graves. Here were buried the bodies of the camp's personnel, hastily shot and buried on July 21 in the last hectic days before the Red Army closed in. The pits stank in the warm sun. There were skulls...
¶ In the Ivry suburb, nameless graves held the remains of an estimated 75,000 persons shot during the occupation.