Before Their Time
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Showing of 19 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The great exception to this admittedly vast generalization is of course E. Sledge and "With the Old Breed. His book treads the well worn path: The intrinsic pathos of war redeems this story as it does most others like it, and there are some memorable passages of descriptive writing.
One concludes, however, that "Before Their Time" remains part of the herd. One person found this helpful. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. It's hard to write and make comments based on someone else, but only one short story about his actual fighting in ww2.
Never rely like I was part of his story. I believe that what most people are finding fault with this book represents its strongest points. This short, yet emotion packed story is the memoir of a young man thrust into the seemingly mindless rigors of Army life, from training to deployment, and then the hell of his one experience of combat.
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That experience, if you can read between the lines, changed him forever. I know that, for anyone who has spent time in the service, you'll enjoy this tale.
You may even laugh out loud, as I did, with his reminiscences of fellow troopers. One does not need to read recollections of carnage, death, and destruction to recognize a beautifully told military insiders tale. The poetry of his words and phrases, the subtleties of his character sketches, the minimalistic rendition of soldiering and the horrors inflicted on the mind and soul of the survivor, are the things that elevates Mr. Kotlowitz's book to a classic level.
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General George Marshall ordered the termination of ASTP program so as to release some , young soldiers to the battlefields of Europe. So, this young man from Baltimore found himself on the liner, "Argentina", at the city of Cherbourg, " The soldiers of the 26th division, the old Yankee Division, had to climb down rope ladders, hanging on the hull of the ship, into Higgins boats below. The details of this relatively unimportant event In this small section, the recounts how his contemporaries reacted to the requirement of climbing down rope cargo nets into the boats below, and by so writing, analyzes those young men of the Yankee Division.
The author not only analyzes the men but also the 26th Division. On page 8, he writes O ther ethnic and national groups had begun to infiltrate the roster: Then, Kotlowitz notes that there was " The writing continues in this analytical tone until the day when his regiment, the th, was ordered to advance against the German lines. Almost everyone was killed or wounded.
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Kotlowitz was one of the few physically unharmed survivors; he spent the entire day under the sights of the Germans. Truth be told, over the years I have from time to time floated the idea that some racist scientist had slipped poison into our milk, after our births or while we were at Yale. Others, not easily inclined to conspiracy theories, have also puzzled at what seemed to be a disproportionately high death rate for black Yalies. Finch III '70, an Atlanta-based emergency room physician who was a close friend and Alpha brother to Clyde and me, in an e-mail to a list of black alums.
It is astonishing and disturbing. I began pondering this issue of black mortality with increased energy and fervor last summer, after my wife Marilyn and I drove up from Brooklyn to New Haven for the last day of my class's 40th reunion. I had a wonderful time, reminiscing and sharing with guys I had not seen in decades and others I did not know at all. But there was a sobering side. The computer sitting outside the registration room was open to a necrology for our class.
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I scrolled up and down it, stopping at one remembered Afro-headed Yalie and another. There was a total of about 80 names on the list, more than half a dozen the names of black men, as I recall. We African Americans back then numbered only 32, out of a class of just over a thousand. This number doesn't include the five black men from Africa and the Caribbean, who faced different kinds of challenges. There surged in me again, momentarily, a sense of death clouds hovering above our heads. But the moment passed.
Before their time
We went outside, Marilyn and I, and sat under the convivial tent offering protection from elements and petty worries, happy with life. We ate and danced to the music of Plastic Visitation, whose singer Ralph Dawson '71 revived in us the Motown energies that once made us so cool. We headed back to Brooklyn, and over the next couple of days I exchanged e-mails—happy, reflective e-mails—about my reconnections to the past. Copyright Yale Alumni Publications, Inc. Content published before July is the responsibility of its editors and third-party users of the website and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers.