Naval battles
have always fascinated me. They are
incredibly complex exercises in death played out in three dimensions over
time. As with any battle studied from a
distance, the student is working from incomplete information on a sanitized
game board which factors out the brutality of war at sea which becomes a
two-pronged exercise in damage control played out while making every effort to
sink enemy ships.
In point of
fact, each combatant warship is fighting both the official national enemy and
the ocean. All the unpleasant elements
that make land war so difficult are present in sea battles, except, perhaps,
flies.
Early sea
battles have changed the course of civilization and have been commemorated in
one of the most beautiful works of sculpture ever created.
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Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike
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This
morning brought leaden skies, rain, and
a drive into mountain Home for “further testing.” Tonight will bring more rain and Italian
sausage and peppers for dinner.
The trees are
beginning to turn. The summer’s drought
may have damped down the autumn color. Time
will tell, but it may actually answer in November.
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