European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Re Upil Jcj a Miille 1 1 hrs Nevi l Mil inc .1 lir French falling Mlo a ii i Lily i a str i recoil v fru in a to r Nal Turaj. Hit Iho i Jiffy n Idun v.,1" hp. and it it and French with stir if Ril. Is m nil Clouds har in Kins. Fai Kom n.,-i Wijs it la injury s Rwjr Ost ii tic Yard a Iii Wui Lii Wai i Levu lure Pun Wai hid a la Ninny. Who noisy of tit a Rosf As Genik Manly sport a vigorous Jame where the most would leave Iho Field of Honor victorious with pc Hinsa Ballu Lipold scat Cal or two in acceptable i Picov Jed tons of courage to show off Toone r. Admirers a Long Ghl in the trenches head buried in the to Filer Lam and knee deep slime trying id slay alive through Ono roaring Blasl Allor another. In Yang la take a through i he fag of decomposing flesh and Mislig pockets of Poison Gas soon look earn of vainglory and naive notions of Gamo playing the lira storm a Tow to morn than 40,000.000 shells crashing in and around Verdun. The howls of the wounded were where moles wore t Fawn in Tinter. Go Anuj were blown up arid foul in up. Burkwi and and Ruhi Iru to id Limos Over under tons of the Raj wore vill Nanri like floury. Cap Lurrel Andrj acc re cd 16 limes a tire even the Grive Yard were blown to i there were smoking Hills of like Mori he inc which or scans Ducaj wan where Iho dead pried an the dead until a dazed observer could Only say. To i ave a romanced Somai Rucj tha is no communicable their was inc Trench of a yokels near for Zoua Urbont. Perched on a Dill so bombarded thai the writer Gabriel Chevalier would Wale sudden by Iho artillery thunders crushes rips away and terrifies us All everything urns red by Isis out. Pitches and reefs we find ourselves at the censor of a massive explosion patches of shy come crashing Down Cornels bang into each other and crumble giving off flashes As if shod Ciocu Ilid this is he end of our world " much of a Balta lion was swallowed alive in that French and Tell there. Locked in Iho Earth in dying gasps and last witches with just Nlle barrels and Long 9 Wen buried in the Woodfi when they toll victim to attack. A t fort vault that Ted wire end twist of steel Ore grim lets of the poit. A title bans it right pokes through ground in a Trench where Chi Salties wan suffered. Bayun is Palm Ramg a Hove la a y ,1m, Etc in Jay. A i Rel Iho Iii flow my. Nin Rtin the memory of Shine when Lur Ever. an Juif up to lira glory of Verdun Between . A French ind Jurj toil la hero Cally Extin then piqoori5 to foil Gnu the of romans got or id one of us Lull s und Clr l tunnels and advanced Rhetor by i ichor of Ynirio throw eff. Machino Tjui Yris and Soto Icola cd Telephone Lirk-5 Eul Iho i their Las Cruor Pigeon to the t to the Pigeon though gashed and wounded Cliv cirt ils Mes Sacco. And Lell dead. It in the Only Pienn to he awarded the legion of Honor Trio survivors out of Waler. By Maori by dust smoke and Gas ought on in the Tunnel Sand condors for seven Days before Sunando. In Ono choking corridor the dead were Joist slacked spin Mcd Wilh Quick Lime and the corridor bricked up ii is Here says a plaque at fort Maui. That the French gave a now meaning to Iho word Horoiuk in sullen no so profoundly. In Icsis Ling 50 completely " the Al Scaler Ballac raged on. Annihilation and realm Hillion a Yard Given a a sad taken Tho a Hocks irom Taoh sides came in thundering barrages loll awed by Waves of Bayonet charges. The French bled they Homor Haged but the germans did not pass indeed. Falkenhayn s hellish plan of Allilion had become a liver that rushed deeper and Fasler than he had Ever imagined with the Wood of nearly As Many germans As French lapping at Iho tanks he tried to Coll it of bul in was too Sato. The Battle. Staggered on for 10 months and the War would go on far into 1918. When the last Lium pot sounded astrologically innocuous Vei Dusi Thoro woo. By come estimates close to one million men killed wounded captured and Mado missing Lofever them 15 no a acl count. When the great shells came shriek ing too close there was nothing Lell to count it is said thai Only one Louth of the found cur Jos were Ever Trie Bones of some 130.000 unknown hip Bones. High Honor. Skulic laced Imus Bullet Onlea a a heaped in alcoves in one git Nylic Stone Tomb called Tho ossuary. They re All in cd log hgr you cannot Tell a hero s shrapnel bashed us firn a Coward 5 in the Gray spam lied heaps Hoy All look alike you cannot then life. In this Monument of Mol demo Bonos. Which i Felt death was a Lanous and which did nol in front of the ossuary in a Field whore Losos Youw is a Ceme cry with 15.000 known corpses Cemo Lencs grow everywhere midst inc bloody glory of Verdun in some places away from the mass Slaughter a single faded Cross rises in he quiet of a rain tapping Forest a sentry died say Iho words in he Misi a Lew Steps farther on. Two heroes died Here " fio Mimi Lovlimo. As the Earth crumbles and shills. Other Bones Slid push to he surface around Verdun it is generally agreed by historians thai Ino glory of Verdun was the most senseless episode in a Arnol distinguished by sense anywhere the glory of Voidan a Phi ire liberally used by politicians and parisians of Tho time who Weron l sharing in Iho bleeding process bul even now. More than 70 years later in the Cecrio gloom of the forests around Verdun Iho Caile still talks. Practically cries to be Hoard the ground in those Strango Woods below Mori homme still Waves Wilh Moss cowered French lines ana1 is everywhere pocked and Oal cred with Shell holes huge and Small five Yards apart psf any of inc holes a c filled with water and alien Wood Asil the explosions happened yesterday followed by a hard night s rare. The wild growing rooms it great Trees that were sawed of and up chimed by a coming rounds arc grim there in ibis dead Man s Fores old sleet twisted jagged a sied Sticks up we and Here through the Damp Earth there Are signs warning thai curtain Par is of the terrain where big Bershas and of other Loucis fell Are Smi dangerous Ono does 1 know Inhat one w l step on a rotund be Dun ii is nearly quiet in the Lotsi the mosquitoes hum softly Over Iho Wacky to rfcs and Iho thirds a flip Atmos resp Chu " be Hrth i ices to Fri they seem to sense Ihil same no Toni on hate something of madness and a zloty Vav Here if you vory Caie fully you can almost hear a Weeing rom the Earlh. And Doanh milling All around. Lay. May 29, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 15
