HFQ snippet request

Visit Flanders some time. Or Verdun and the Marne.

n7axw wrote:

Charybdis wrote:< snip >

FYI: On the subject of Today's Date of June 6th - "Remember to remember the LONGEST DAY!"

With your closing sentence here, I couldn't help but remember those cemetaries in Normandy with their neatly arranged white crosses. Sober thought. Thanks.

Don

n7axw wrote:

Charybdis wrote:< snip >

FYI: On the subject of Today's Date of June 6th - "Remember to remember the LONGEST DAY!"

With your closing sentence here, I couldn't help but remember those cemetaries in Normandy with their neatly arranged white crosses. Sober thought. Thanks.

Don

Make a visit in Buchenwald. Or Ravensbrück. Or Oświęcim ... so you know why the cemetaries in the Normandy had to come into existence ...

Alistair wrote:Hes posted a snippet of another book in another forum so that means our lack of snippet is not due to him running late. I suspect he is continuing to slow the drip feeding so that the majority of the book will be able to be read by us in October.

Yes, this is a surprise. He has been posting snippets for SotS And HFQ together for some time and started doing RTH at the same time recently, but SotS has nothing new either. Perhaps he has humanely decided to spread the fixes out so we get one every few days for one of the three books rather than getting them all together then a substantial gap.

Eagleeye wrote:
Make a visit in Buchenwald. Or Ravensbrück. Or Oświęcim ... so you know why the cemetaries in the Normandy had to come into existence ...

Well said. Further comment by me would be redundant.

Don

Louis R wrote:Visit Flanders some time. Or Verdun and the Marne.

Last September I was in London and saw the partially complete 'Red Poppy' exhibit at "The Tower of London" that had plastic red poppies ("In Flander's Fields") spilling down the wall and filling the moat of the Tower. This was in memoriam of the Centennial of WW1's start - August 1914, the day when the lights of Europe started to go out! Like many, I regard the 2 wars as an interrupted single one with a bad peace generated multiple aggressions for the second and greater WORLD War.

I asked my grandpa once, after he'd told me a story about making a beach landing under fire, why he'd gone to fight. He started to answer, but decided against whatever he was about to say, and said instead, "it just needed done, Matt, so I went to do it."

I didn't understand, then, why he never talked about his days in the Army, but now I get it. I only wish I could apologize for all the needling about coming to watch the fireworks, because I now understand all too well why he felt that he'd seen quite enough, thank you.

My sons have gotten to a point where they are infatuated with all things military, and they remember a time where their father would wear funny looking clothes and disappear for months on end. I'm now a well read, well traveled man with the capacity to be quite articulate, should the need arise. My eldest looks like a carbon copy of me when I was that age, and he asked me why I'd gone to fight. The years washed away, and I suddenly realized how grandpa must have felt, trying to find the words that even a child could grasp. Fortunately, I already had an answer, given to me by one of the greatest men I've ever had the good fortune to know.

Undercover Fat Kid wrote:I asked my grandpa once, after he'd told me a story about making a beach landing under fire, why he'd gone to fight. He started to answer, but decided against whatever he was about to say, and said instead, "it just needed done, Matt, so I went to do it."

I didn't understand, then, why he never talked about his days in the Army, but now I get it. I only wish I could apologize for all the needling about coming to watch the fireworks, because I now understand all too well why he felt that he'd seen quite enough, thank you.

My sons have gotten to a point where they are infatuated with all things military, and they remember a time where their father would wear funny looking clothes and disappear for months on end. I'm now a well read, well traveled man with the capacity to be quite articulate, should the need arise. My eldest looks like a carbon copy of me when I was that age, and he asked me why I'd gone to fight. The years washed away, and I suddenly realized how grandpa must have felt, trying to find the words that even a child could grasp. Fortunately, I already had an answer, given to me by one of the greatest men I've ever had the good fortune to know.

Thank you for posting that, that boils it all down.

My own father wouldn't talk about the hell he had seen and lived through. I never understood that until I took my own place in that line.

Isilith wrote:Thank you for posting that, that boils it all down.

My own father wouldn't talk about the hell he had seen and lived through. I never understood that until I took my own place in that line.

Well ISILITH, You would have gotten the prize for being the last requestor before the latest snippet (#26) posting BUT YOU FAILED TO ASK!!! There are rules in this game and unless we can show sufficient groveling and whimpering, our infuriating but sustaining author might not think us thankful.

As it stands, I guess RANDOMIZER gets the prize since he at least MENTIONED snippets in his post some 21 hours preceding the new snippet. SIR! You are entitled to a free drink of your choice at the virtual bar! Be very careful of the Jabberwocky Juice, it has aftereffects!

FYI: In the statistics department, it took 39 posts over 8 days on this thread to produce this #26 snippet (after waiting a 10 day grace period from 05/20/15 to 05/30.) While there did seem to be a slacking of sufficiently groveling requests, the fact is mitigated by the understandable concern over RFC's medical condition. I do expect better for this cycle from the troops - you know who you are!

Another factoid of interest is that both the #25 and #26 snippets were submitted at 3:12pm. Just a coincidence I'm sure BUT does that word exist in RFC's realm?

I find it amusing that a thread I started in an attempt to get a certain type of scene that we haven't seen in several books has turned into a mechanism for grovelling for snippets. By the way, I'm still dying for a Clyntahn (however you spell it) conniption snippet or "cnippet" as y'all once corrected me.

That said, by the time the book officially comes out, how much of it will we have already been able to read?

All this aside, I really do hope Mr Weber is doing well and has fully recovered.
I'd hate to throw a tantrum that would make these Schulerites blush because Honor's story (among many, many, many other characters in our other favorite series) is left unfinished at this crucial juncture.

ChronicRder wrote:I find it amusing that a thread I started in an attempt to get a certain type of scene that we haven't seen in several books has turned into a mechanism for grovelling for snippets. By the way, I'm still dying for a Clyntahn (however you spell it) conniption snippet or "cnippet" as y'all once corrected me.

That said, by the time the book officially comes out, how much of it will we have already been able to read?

All this aside, I really do hope Mr Weber is doing well and has fully recovered.
I'd hate to throw a tantrum that would make these Schulerites blush because Honor's story (among many, many, many other characters in our other favorite series) is left unfinished at this crucial juncture.

From what I recall of LAMA, snippets will probably cover about a quarter of the book. I could stand to be corrected on this by someone with better info, however.

Don