----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>
> Charles Jannuzi wrote:
> >
> > Certain waitresses would wear me out,
> > getting me to bus their every table, big group tables, whole
banquets,
> > because they knew I could be trusted. I was trusted, and I was
poor.
> >
>
> There is a great episode in Ford Maddox Ford's _Parade's End_
dealing
> with trench warfare. (Ford had been an infantry officer in France so
it
> may be based on some actuality.) A division commander trained his
> division to move slowly and together in charges. Such movement has
(had)
> a tendency to make the defenders tense, and they would pull too hard
on
> the trigger. Thus in each attack this division's casualties were
lower.
>
> That's good.
>
> The Division earned such a fine reputation that the upper command
began
> to use it whenever possible in important attacks. Hence it was more
> continuously engaged in heavy combat and thus was being decimated at
a
> higher rate than divisions with higher casualty rates.
>
> That's bad.
>
> Carrol
========== Counterfinality?
Ian