July 29, 2019 The Petersburg Mine: The Big Kaboom Part II A while back, I wrote a post about a big explosion on the Ypres Salient in WWI. It had an impact, you might say – oh, the puns. Many of […]
September 5, 2017 The Bloody Angle On a cool morning in April of 2016, I visited a small prairie in the wilderness of Virginia. A wide-open field of grass sloped into a deep ravine. Blooming purple […]