Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men "stood on nothin', a-lookin' up a rope." The platf...orm had a trap wide enought to "accommodate" 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lead bullets flattened by human teeth have been found on the camp site. Soldiers who had been caught stealing food from nearby far...ms customarily chewed on a bullet as the lash was laid on their bare backs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments t...hat pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is only one place for the women who served and that is on the same site with our brother soldiers. These women have touched ...thousands of those names on the wall. We have to be at that spot, physically, spiritually and emotionally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recogni...zed it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to bu...ild, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site's most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The site of the true bottomless financial pit is the toy store. It's amazing how much a few pieces of plastic and paper will sell ...for if the purchasers are parents or grandparent, especially when the manufacturers claim their product improves a child's intellectual or physical development.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jerry: She's one of those third-year girls that gripe my liver. Milo: Third-year girls?... Jerry: Yeah, you know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture. They give me a swift pain. Milo: Why? Jerry: They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »