Imagine you're a 17-year-old soldier from Bayonne, NJ
in a trench somewhere in France and this
is what you're seeing over your head...
Trench warfare in 1917. Competing artillery
and projectiles raining on enemy positions.
The discovery appears to show for the first time that compounds that are key to life can form in the vast expanse between stars and fuels ...
My granduncle Walter was a 19 yo private in the U.S. Signal corps stationed in France - on the front lines. He kept a diary and his daughter preserved a lot of the letters he sent home. The stories are all understated, but he saw some up close shit. I was pretty young when he died so I never got to ask him about it.
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