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Eagle River, AK
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I live in Eagle River and am currently enjoying retirement. I'll let you know when I get bored! :-)
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In All Quiet on the Western Front it was stated that "to no man does the earth mean more" and that may be hard for some of us to understand. But it means that an infantry soldier in the trenches and his whole life is defined by the dirt, med, water, and the elements. My father spent several months in the foxholes of Korea in 1952 and he talked a bit about it. I was in the Marines in 1990-94 and was deployed to the desert and spent a few nights dug into the desert sands of Saudi Arabia. It is hard for me to say that the earth and land mean less to the military man, unless he/she spends his time in a barracks and not getting out and digging in. I think Barry Lopez would have a few things to say about the geography of the infantry Marine.
MB