Sherry Chandler » 2005 » September » 17
Early Warning column on Bush’s call for a broader civilian role for the armed forces by William M. Arkin in the Washington Post
Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall on the same subject
E-mail Suggests Government Seeking to Blame [Environmental] Groups by Jerry Mitchell in the Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Lawyer Was Fired After Rove Called by Wayne Slater at WFAA.com
Excerpt from Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid at TPMCafé
What Went Wrong by Gary Kamiya, review of Night Draws Near at Salon
Reuters Says Bush Photo Not ‘Malicious,’ Reports Wide Interest at Home and Abroad at Editor & Publisher
This is Style? at I See Invisible People
Reading Faulkner with Oprah by Megan O’Rourke in Slate
This post was written by sherry
I guess we moderns don’t have a monopoly on carnage.
According to the NYTimes, today is the anniversary of the Civil War battle of Antietam in which 23,100 soldiers were killed.
Even after the bloody 20th century and the beginning of the bloodier 21st, I find that number incomprehensible.
You can get a look at the front page for that day in 1862 and read the report at this link.
Some other notable events of the day, tragic and trivial, here. It is, for example, William Carlos Williams’s birthday and also that of Hank Williams.
This post was written by sherry
