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DD edited the quotations of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible Sunday, September 27 2009.

• Added a quotation: “An instant later, the .3006-calibur bullet smashed into the tank commander's head, spraying pink and gray shards of skull in a halo around what remained of his head.”

DD edited the books like this book of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible Friday, September 25 2009.

• Added Longest Winter

DD edited the quotations of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible Friday, September 25 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “One by one, the tanks got hit; their turrets were smashed; their treads were shot off; their hulls were penetrated by high- velocity shells that ricocheted around the inside, shredding crewman into dismembered pieces; their gas tanks or engines caught fire, singeing skin, burning hair, ,asphyxiating the men, and consuming flesh and bones in avaricious flames.”

DD edited the quotations of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible Friday, September 25 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “The very air around them stank of burned fleash-flesh- sickly sweet, distinctly crispy, like a strange mixture of spoiled meat and charcoal.”
• Added a quotation: “One by one, the tanks got hit; their turrets were smashed; their treads were shot off; their hulls were penetrated by high- velocity shells that ricocheted around the inside, shredding crewman into dismembered pieces; their gas tanks or engines caught fire, singeing skin, burning hair, , asphyxiating the men, and consuming flesh and bones in avaricious flames.”

DD edited the quotations of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible Friday, September 25 2009.

• Added a quotation: “The very air around them stank of burned fleash- sickly sweet, distinctly crispy, like a strange mixture of spoiled meat and charcoal.”

DD edited the first sentence of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible Monday, September 21 2009.

• The Hurtgen Forest was a horrible nightmare, but it was over now.

DD edited the table of contents of This Republic of Suffering Wednesday, September 16 2009.

• List of Illustrations ix
  Preface: The Work of Death xi

  1. Dying: "To Lay Down My Life" 3
  2. Killing: "The Harder Courage" 32
  3. Burying: "New Lessons Caring for the Dead" 61
  4. Naming: "The Significant Word Unknown" 102
  5. Realizing: Civilians and the Work of Mourning 137
  6. Believing and Doubting: "What Means this Carnage?" 171
  7. Accounting: "Our Obligations to the Dead" 211
  8. Numbering: "How Many? How Many?" 250
  Epilogue: Surviving 266

  Notes 273
  Acknowledgments 323
  Index 325

DD edited the first sentence of This Republic of Suffering Wednesday, September 16 2009.

• No one expected what the Civil War was to become.

DD edited the quotations of The Last Stand of Fox Company Tuesday, September 8 2009.

• Added a quotation: “We commemorate the memory of the heroic dead. They were the life, the spirit, and soul of our Corps. We will not, nor can we ever, forget the lessons they taught us about honor and faithfulness.”

DD edited the quotations of The Last Stand of Fox Company Monday, August 31 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Marines and Chinese ran in all directions, shooting, hollering, heaving grenades, cursing, fighting with knives, and rifle butts and even hand to hand.”