Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia's coast.
One of the two outbounders ended up KIA; the other survived the war, but was gassed. (As was American actor Walter Brennan, which gave him a voice that kept him in business for decades).
"If you ask where is the Picasso of England or the Ezra Pound of France, there is only one probable answer: still in the trenches."
Robert Hughes*
* ("World War One destroyed an entire generation. We don't know and we can't even guess what might have been painted or written if the war had never happened. As for the waste of minds, we know the names of some who died: among the painters, Umberto Boccioni, Franz Marc, August Macke; the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brezska; the poets Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen. But for every one whose name survives there must have been scores, possibly hundreds of those who never had a chance to develop."
shapersofthe80s.com)
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