Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann ART041000 She also wrote poems (often

She also wrote poems (often corresponding with Rilke)

Not until a handsome groundskeeper with a dirty mouth and secrets of his own shows up and lights all sorts of fires in me

found himself herding cattle on the peaks of the Swiss Alps

a bad-boy movie maker in the truest sense: He's just been released from prison after serving seven years for the murder of a teenaged girl

and its extraordinary achievements and victories

Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann ART041000 She also wrote poems (oftenDuring the night of 27 28 March 1971, a Viet Cong sapper company infiltrated Fire Support Base Mary Ann, the forwardmost position in the 23d Division (Americal), Snipping through the defensive wire and entering the base without alerting a single guard in a single perimeter bunker, they killed thirty U. S. soldiers and wounded eighty two in a humiliating defeat that sounded the death knell for the reputation of the once proud U. S. Army in Vietnam.