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Movies, TV shows, plays and memoirs will eventually construct a mythic reality around the American experience in Viet Nam. World War I's catastrophic trench warfare, which nearly wiped out a generation of England's best and brightest men (France's and Germany's as well), was so utterly new and unfamiliar that a highly literate assemblage spent the next decade, at least, formulating a conception of what it had all been about. Something of the same process is occurring regarding Viet...
...four more weeks, Harvard's trench artists non-pareil will keep fashioning their fine work, for the most part unnoticed...
Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the land masses on opposite sides of the fault-unmistakable signs of a major earthquake. Using radioactive-carbon dating techniques to determine the age of the dead organic material in the peat layers, he has now determined that the quakes occurred around...
...continue upward to 20 feet at Alewife. Much of the excavation will be what is known in the trade as a "bored tunnel"--the digging proceeds entirely underground, with access through several shafts along the way. Toward Alewife, construction will be of the "cut-and-cover" variety, although the trench may be temporarily covered to permit street traffic to pass unhindered...
...trench Moir found a dozen pieces of ceramic and glass dating from the colonial era. He returned on Monday and found 20 more artifacts...