Fire Whitman

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“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)