Many more, forced to flee, died of exposure in the mountains.
That soldier staring into the red fog that hung in the air seemed so poorly prepared for battle that I could not help but wonder why he, among the thousands of Iraqi soldiers who simply tore off their uniforms and fled, died defending Saddam Hussein.
"The choices of that day were hide, flee or die.
Stanley named it after Leopold II, the Belgian king who had created what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, racking up a record of abuses that caused an estimated 10 million people – as much as half the country's population – to flee or die.
They suck up so much oxygen from the water that in summer, much of the ecosystem is approaching a danger point at which other aquatic creatures begin to flee or die, according to a new study by a team of ecologists at the Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., who have been studying the Hudson ecosystem since 1987.
The journey to the U.S., up through Mexico especially, is so notoriously fraught with hardship and extreme danger that most people, especially those with children in tow, would be unwilling to risk it unless they really did feel caught in a "flee or die" situation.
If oxygen levels drop too low, shrimp, fish, and other sea life must flee or die, leaving a dead zone that sometimes grows to the size of the state of New Jersey.
Nor does he include one of the best essays in the modern continental tradition on friendship, death and suicide, "The Experience of Death" (1938) by Paul-Louis Landsberg, a German Jewish Catholic who refused a chance to flee and died in a Nazi camp.
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Interstellar follows a team of humans as they flee a dying earth in search of a new beginning for the human race.
The game begins on the Ark, the spacecraft the Autobots use to flee their dying homeworld of Cybertron.
