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...ages. In truth, Hamburg is a phoenix. In 1943, wrote the German novelist W.G. Sebald in On the Natural History of Destruction, a set of 1997 lectures recently translated into English, the British bombed Hamburg so heavily that a fire storm "lifted gables and roofs from buildings, tore trees from the ground and drove human beings before it like living torches." The absence of any body of literature discussing the Allied bombings, Sebald thought, was evidence of the timidity of German art. But books like Crabwalk have begun to reclaim an important part of the German experience...
...Lexington, Mass. native also played football in high school, a choice that would drastically impact his senior year. On October 27, 2001, Klimkiewicz tore his left ACL in a freak accident on a kickoff, forcing him to sit out his senior baseball season. It was the first time all season Klimkiewicz had been in on a special teams play. The year before, in his second “junior” season at BB&N, Klimkiewicz won the ISL MVP, batting .478 with eight home runs, 48 RBI and 15 stolen bases...
Klimkiewicz had other plans. After his MVP junior season, Klimkiewicz was approached by professional scouts interested in drafting him directly out of high school. But after he tore his ACL, professional interest died down...
...were shot at, Talraas' driver, Sergeant Michael Maita, hit the gas and sped back to the southeastern corner of the town. Maita had been shot in the hand. "But," said Talraas, "he kept his wits about him and they got out of there," Maita shouting "Medic! Medic!" as they tore back to safety...
...Black Hawk tore back to the hospital at Tallil, Maita and Talraas were stable and Barbe focused on squeezing bags of saline into the dying soldier's jugular vein. To keep him from slipping into a coma, Barbe was grabbing handfuls of the patient's eyebrow hair ripping it out, and rubbing his knuckles into his sternum. Anything painful to get a response. Every few minutes the bleeding paratrooper would pick up his head, smile weakly and give a thumbs up. He was still with them...