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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Tuberville wouldn't recognize the direction of the U.S. military if you dropped him in an Abrams in the middle of the flight deck of the Nimitz, but put that aside for the moment, and consider the staggering vista of untouched ignorance before us when Tuberville tried to divorce poetry from warmaking. Over the side go Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Siegried Sassoon, Walt Whitman's Drum Taps, Shakespeare's Harry Plantagenet, and of course, the auld blind fella who begins this way:

Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son, Achilles
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses
hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls
feasts for the dogs and birds
and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.
Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed
Agamemnon, lord of men, and brilliant Achilles.
It goes on from there, Senator. Have someone read it to you."
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