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The first "unknown" corpse exhumed at Verdun turned out to be Senegalese, so he was reburied and replaced by a white body.
--From a review by Neal Ascherson of Jean-Yves Le Naour's bookThe Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War, Times Literary Supplement, 10 March 2006
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ain't that a bitch
Posted by: clarafiedwords | 09 May 2006 at 02:06