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...spare time, the athlete many consider the finest all-around graduating senior took to the lacrosse field (freshman year), softball field (sophomore year) and the Charles River in a Radcliffe crew shell (junior year) for one-year stints in sports in which she'd never participated before...
...University tries to be a very good to its alumni, pampering them every chance it gets. The reason is clear to see: if the grass is particularly green this time of year, then maybe the grads will remember how green the grass was in their day and shell out a little money for some more fertilizer...
...graves of friends they fought beside. They will think of themselves singing as they set off from England, "Glory, glory, what a hell of a way to die..." They will remember exactly the spot where they were pinned down by German machine guns, or where a shell blast sent a truck pinwheeling. They will go up again to Pointe du Hoc and shake their heads again in wonder at the men who climbed that sheer cliff while Germans fired down straight into their faces. The veterans will take photographs. But the more vivid pictures will be those fixed in their...
Everywhere there were noise, explosions, gunfire and wrenching cries for help. "Medico! Medico! I'm hit! Help me!" Aboard one landing craft, a German shell struck a flamethrower strapped to one soldier's back. The explosion set the whole landing craft on fire, and it burned all day long, the fire punctuated by explosions from the craft's ammunition supply...
...never come up." He saw a shell hit a beached landing craft, "flames everywhere, men burning alive." And again: "Direct hit on 2½-ton truck gasoline load; another catches fire ... men's clothes on fire ... attempt to roll in sand to put out flames...