A COMBATANT POET PUT IT THIS WAY: “BY THE END OF THE DAY . . . NEITHER RACE HAD WON, NOR COULD W IN , THE WAR. THE WXR HAD WON, AND WOULD GO ON W INNING.” IN THE TRENCHES IT BECAME KNOWN AS THE GREAT FUCK-UP. THROUGHOUT THE WAR 7 0 0 0 BRITISH SOLDIERS WERE KILLED OR WOUNDED EACH D A Y . . . 2 9 1 PER HOUR- . . . NEARLY 5 PER MINUTE. THE BRITISH MILITARY HIGH COMMAND CALLED THESE CASUALTIES “WASTAGE.” X II ON JANUARY IST, 1 9 1 7 , HAIG WAS PROMOTED TO FIELD MARSHALL. Clinton St. Quarterly—Summer, 1987 21
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