The Cause Doesn't Have To Be Righteous

There Is Some Evidence That Average Wave Heights Are Slowly Rising, And That Freak Waves Of Eighty Or Ninety Feet Are Becoming More Common. Wave Heights Off The Coast Of England Have Risen An Average Of 25 Percent Over The Past Couple Of Decades, Which Converts To A Twenty-foot Increase In The Highest Waves Over The Next Half Century. One Cause May Be The Tightening Of Environmental Laws, Which Has Reduced The Amount Of Oil Flushed Into The Oceans By Oil Tankers.

Firemen Don't Talk About Whether A Burning Warehouse Is Worth Saving.

In My Eyes Marlantes Has Become The Pre-eminent Literary Voice On War Of Our Generation. He Is A Natural Storyteller And A Deeply Profound Thinker Who Not Only Illuminates War For Civilians, But Also Offers A Kind Of Spiritual Guidance To Vets Themselves. As This Generation Of Warriors Comes Home, They Will Be Enormously Helped By What Marlantes Has Written. I’m Sure He Will Literally Save Lives.

The Negative Effects Of Combat Were Nightmares, And I'd Get Jumpy Around Certain Noises And Stuff, But You'd Have That After A Car Accident Or A Bad Divorce. Life's Filled With Trauma. You Don't Need To Go To War To Find It It's Going To Find You. We All Deal With It, And The Effects Go Away After Awhile. At Least They Did For Me.

During The Air War Of 1944, A Four-man Combat Crew On A B-17 Bomber Took A Vow To Never Abandon One Another No Matter How Desperate The Situation. The Aircraft Was Hit By Flak During A Mission And Went Into A Terminal Dive, And The Pilot Ordered Everyone To Bail Out. The Top Turret Gunner Obeyed The Order, But The Ball Turret Gunner Discovered That A Piece Of Flak Had Jammed His Turret And He Could Not Get Out. The Other Three Men In His Pact Could Have Bailed Out With The Parachutes, But They Stayed With Him Until The Plan Hit The Ground And Exploded. They All Died.