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[https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540629611/even-in-the-war-to-end-all-wars-there-was-art-coming-from-the-trenches by Susan Stamberg 1/8/17 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540629611/even-in-the-war-to-end-all-wars-there-was-art-coming-from-the-trenches by Susan Stamberg 1/8/17 npr] | ||
The Americans didn't arrive until three years into the war and fought for less than a year. They joined French, Russian, British and other troops fighting Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. World War I was the first "modern" industrial war with large numbers of tanks, heavy artillery and planes. Tragically, it was also a war of trenches. | The Americans didn't arrive until three years into the war and fought for less than a year. They joined French, Russian, British and other troops fighting Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. World War I was the first "modern" industrial war with large numbers of tanks, heavy artillery and planes. Tragically, it was also a war of trenches. | ||
=====After War, a Failure of the Imagination===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/after-war-a-failure-of-the-imagination.html by Phil Klay 8/2/14 The New York Times] | |||
As a former Marine who served in Iraq, I’d heard the sentiment before — it’s the civilian counterpart to the veteran’s “You wouldn’t know, you weren’t there.” But this time it struck an especially discordant note. This woman was a friend. | |||
