tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post8050756526412143754..comments2024-03-27T07:14:36.800-04:00Comments on <b>Dawn Potter</b>: Fragments: The Bonds of Art and WarDawn Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-14087724361418848332015-12-21T14:26:41.604-05:002015-12-21T14:26:41.604-05:00Warfare is a fascinating subject. Despite the dubi...Warfare is a fascinating subject. Despite the dubious morality of using violence to achieve personal or political aims. It remains that conflict has been used to do just that throughout recorded history.<br /><br />Your article is very well done, a good read.Geraldhttp://www.greatmilitarybattles.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-63580333269876788882015-04-29T10:28:47.092-04:002015-04-29T10:28:47.092-04:00Truly, David, I was thinking of you as I transcrib...Truly, David, I was thinking of you as I transcribed these extracts. I knew you would comprehend the inscrutability (to borrow your word) of the way in which people, and time, and influence collide. Smallness and largeness become tremendously important and not important at all. Gall's measured argument collapses into "my heart went bad." Of course it did.Dawn Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-51422205343809842482015-04-29T10:12:01.098-04:002015-04-29T10:12:01.098-04:00These are very fine quotes, and a very fine poem. ...These are very fine quotes, and a very fine poem. Thank you.<br /><br />Yes, Little Big Horn and the Fetterman Massacre would fail even to count as “an affair of outposts” compared to the carnage waiting half a century on in Europe. And yet they, especially Little Big Horn, continue to attract an enduring fascination.<br /><br />It may be partly that there were no survivors, no “I alone am escaped to tell thee”. Or maybe part of it is also this: many of Custer’s men were central Europeans—Italians, Hungarians, etc., more than a few of whom could barely speak English—and their distance travelled, the distance between, say, a tiny Italian village and a terrible ending on a bleak Montana hilltop, remains inscrutable.<br /><br />David (n of 49)noreply@blogger.com