Word: ypres
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Englishmen who fought at Ypres and the Somme carried the Oxford Book of English Verse in their haversacks; such literary brigades in the trenches would find their minds chiming with a line of Keats, or William Dunbar's Timor Mortis Conturbat Me. The Americans in Viet Nam usually packed more kinetic cultural effects. Images given them over the years by movies and television would sometimes unreel in their brains as they moved toward a tree line or a Vietnamese village, and in bizarre synaptic flips between reality and pictures, they would see themselves for an instant as, say, Audie...
...first taste of soldiering at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and was almost expelled at one point for setting the shirt of a fellow cadet on fire. In World War I, after three years in India, he fought on the Marne and was badly wounded at Ypres. He emerged from the war at 30 a lieutenant colonel. By 1938, after more service in India and the Middle East, he was a major general. During the opening months of World War II, while France and Belgium were collapsing, his reputation was enhanced by his cool command of a division that...
...what the treacherous years were all the while really [leading up to] and meaning is too tragic for anywords." Yet for those who saw the trenches extending 2200 miles from the coast in Belgium to Switzerland, for those who saw 60,000 British casualties at Ypres in April, 1915, and another 60,000 British casualties at Loos five months later, and then 60,000 killed and wounded on a single day at the attack on the Somme in June, 1916, for these men words somehow had to explain things...
Died. Tommy Armour, 72, golf's battling Scot, who won all the big tournaments in the 1920s and early '30s; after a long illness; in Larchmont, N.Y. Gassed at Ypres in World War I, Tommy was strong enough by 1920 to win the French Amateur, in 1921 moved to the U.S., where he turned pro and swept his era's top tournaments-the Canadian Open (1927, '30, '34), the U.S. Open (1927), the P.G.A. (1930) and the British Open...
...artillery bombardments have left the three red hills of Con Thien a crater-pocked moonscape. Monsoon rains, a month ahead of their normal mid-October arrival, have churned the outpost into a quagmire reminiscent of Ypres in World War I. Everything must be brought into the outpost by helicopter to a landing zone grimly known as "Death Valley," or over the unpaved road from Cam Lo. Everything rots or mildews. The Marines at Con Thien live on C rations. Because water is scarce, they shave only every other day and can seldom wash...