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• W4299498859 abstract "War Stories Told, Untold and Retold from Troy to Tinian to Fort Campbell THOMAS G. PALAIMA “Truly and sadly, c’est l[a] guerre.” —Kevin Herbert, email, October 24, 1999 I saw the vision of armies; And I saw, as in noiseless dreams, hundreds of battle-flags; Borne through the smoke of battles, and pierc’d with missiles, I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody; And at last but a few shreds of the flags left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) And the staffs all splinter’d and broken. I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men—I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all dead soldiers; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest—they suffer’d not; The living remain’d and suffer’d—the mother suffer’d, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer’d And the armies that remain’d suffer’d. —Walt Whitman (1865) “I Saw the Visions of Armies”1 pàn ejsti a[nqrwpo~ sumforhv = “a human being is entirely an accident” (or a “thing of chance or coincidence ”). So says Herodotus early in book 1 (1.32.4), where the early-6th-century Athenian statesman Solon, considered one of the seven wise men of ancient Greece, defines what it means to be a human being. In a lifetime of seventy years, he arion 23.3 winter 2016 This essay is the written version of a memorial lecture in honor of classicist and World War II veteran Kevin Herbert (1921–2015) delivered October 23, 2015 at Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught from 1962 until 2008, well into his emeritus period. calculates, not one of the 26,250 days is like the next in what it brings. In Greek, the word sumphorē means literally “a bringing together,” “collecting,” “conjunction.” It can mean neutrally a “chance occurrence,” “accident,” “outcome” or “event.” It mostly has a bad connotation: “misfortune” or “stroke of bad luck.” Rarely it means “good fortune” or “happy outcome.” And that says something about the lives that even the most privileged of the ancient Greeks lived. Consistent with a justifiably pessimistic world view, the Greeks believed that war was the natural human condition and that periods of what they and we call “peace” were “armistices” that were set for fixed periods of time and had to be renewed periodically with formal rituals in order to prolong this precarious, unnatural, state. “I like that very much: ‘If the accident will.’” That is Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five (1969, 2) commenting on the mangled English phrase of a taxi driver who drove him and his “old war buddy Bernard V. O’Hare” around Dresden in 1967. Vonnegut liked it because, like pronouncements of the Delphic oracle or Solon’s reasoning from a life lived amidst the violence of the greater Greek world, “if the accident will” speaks a kind of truth about our lives. It gives us a healthy uncertainty that we know what our lives mean. But for being held as prisoners of war in a building where animals were killed routinely without much reverence, Vonnegut and O’Hare would have been incinerated by their own country’s planes and bombs along with the inhabitants of a historic German town whose main industry was the production not of munitions, but of objects made of porcelain. Bernard V. O’Hare’s wife was angry about the whole enterprise. She thought that, after their visit, Vonnegut would write a standard war tale about noble heroes rather than a story about the slaughter of many innocents in modern mechanized warfare. Was she right to be fearful of what war story Vonnegut, with her husband’s support, was likely to tell? My question is archly rhetorical, as Kevin Herbert would have known. The answer is “yes,” with or without an ironic “of course” for emphasis. war stories told, untold and retold 2 As was well known to Kevin Herbert, a Jesuit- and Harvard-trained classical scholar and humanist of an age when that educational pedigree..." @default.
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