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May 9th, 2009
11:17 am [Link]	brothers: 1927, 1942 Tags: family, father, jews, russia, war (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 11th, 2008
05:25 am [Link]	in memoriam *John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1919, Imperial War Museum, London* Dulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime . . . Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. —Wilfred Owen (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen edited by Edmund Blunden New Directions, 1965, p. 55 Henri de Groux, Masques à gaz, etching, Royal Army and Military History Museum, Brussels REPRODUCED FROM ART OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR LA NUIT D’AVRIL 1915 À L. de C.-C. Le ciel est étoilé par les obus des Boches La forêt merveilleuse où je vis donne un bal La mitrailleuse joue un air à triples-croches Mais avez-vous le mot Eh ! oui le mot fatal Aux créneaux Aux créneaux Laissez là les pioches Comme un astre éperdu qui cherche ses saisons Cœur obus éclaté tu sifflais ta romance Et tes mille soleils ont vidé les caissons Que les dieux de mes yeux remplissent en silence Nous vous aimons ô vie et nous vous agaçons Les obus miaulaient un amour à mourir Un amour qui se meurt est plus doux que les autres Ton souffle nage au fleuve où le sang va tarir Les obus miaulaient Entends chanter les nôtres Pourpre amour salué par ceux qui vont périr Le printemps tout mouillé la veilleuse l’attaque Il pleut mon âme il pleut mais il pleut des yeux morts Ulysse que de jours pour rentrer dans Ithaque Couche-toi sur la paille et songe un beau remords Qui pur effet de l’art soit aphrodisiaque Mais orgues aux fétus de la paille où tu dors L’hymne de l’avenir est paradisiaque —Guillaume Apollinaire (26 août 1880 – 9 novembre 1918) Œuvres poétiques édition établie et annotée par Marcel Adéma Gallimard, 1965, pp. 243-244 Guillaume Apollinaire, 1916 кавалерист Моисей Исаакович Зелёный (1889-1934) пехотинец Иосиф Моисеевич Зелёный (1920-2000) артиллерист Исаак Моисеевич Зелёный (1923-2004) Tags: apollinaire, death, french, memory, violence, war (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
January 13th, 2007
11:38 am [Link]	what was hawaii doing in the pacific? Reproduced from Zero Mostel’s FBI file: Stage Door Canteen, Thursday, 13 August 1942 ZERO MOSTEL SPOT MOSTEL: My impression of a peculiar sapiensis Americanis, (the Isolationist Senator), who digs at our great President, is a holder of an X card, cannot get along on the starvation wages of $25,000 a year -- the honorable Senator Phineas T. Pellegra, who never gets excited, who is always very calm and cool as he speaks about the democracy in which he doesn't believe -- in. My fellow Americans, I take off my hat in America to no one -- but in this great land of opportunity, in this great land of democracy, in the midst of plenty, where we have these various sacred principles that our fathers have fought for in the past, present and future, then I must reiterate that all our strength, that all our power, these same principles which we know to be true on the one hand -- and on the other hand. I may be vague, but permit me to be serious and bituminous at this moment, to illustrate this story with an incident that was related to me by the president of U.S. Congeal, a struggling monopoly. He said to me, "Pellegra (he calls me by my first disease), you take your attitude away from your platitude -- what have you got -- FIDUCIARY?" -- and this shows, my fellow Americans, that we cannot pursue a policy... that we cannot pursue a policy... that we cannot pursue a policy of... (DOUBLE TALK) .....FORGET IT! I say to you, AMERICA FIRST!!! (And what is the trouble with our war effort? I will tell you. The trouble with our war effort is that we have too many allies... twenty-six... we are too crowded! It is not restricted enough! Why, my golf club has more rules for admission than this war. Before we know it, it will be an unequal battle... the Axis will be outnumbered. Is that fair? Is that the American way?) One final word. You know, I come from a state where there are no conditions, and if I were to tell the most serious and grievous problem facing the American people about this so-called Japanese attack on Hawaii, I have this to offer to you, my fellow Americans...... From one corner of our great land, in Rhode Island, to the other corner in California..... DOUBLE TALK..... DOUBLE TALK..... DOUBLE TALK..... This one question..... WHAT WAS HAWAII DOING IN THE PACIFIC? Agent's Note It is believed the above excerpts taken from the broadcast of Stage Door Canteen on 13 August 1942 by the Columbia Broadcast System resulted in Sokolsky's criticism of the Subject in his column. Attention is directed to the fact that the script was not presented in its original form. The program director made deletions of certain passages in the script, which he apparently felt were in bad taste. These are shown in the script in brackets. Tags: comedy, history, jews, politics, war (2 comments \| Leave a comment)

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