And how to learn from experience: armies routinely conduct post-mortems on their missions.From foxhole to corner officeSome businesspeople are eager to learn from the men and women in uniform.
That plainly isn't true; it would be more accurate to say that being in a foxhole, or anywhere else where death is an ever-present possibility, makes you think about ultimate matters.
One paratrooper whispered that, given the wretchedness of his accommodation, he might have elected to spend the next few weeks in an Afghanistan foxhole, but then he brightened and allowed that there was indeed a surge of excitement coursing through this recast section of the old East End.
I'd Rather Be High Set to a jazzy shuffle bound with a sinuous guitar line, this finds one of the poor bloody infantry regretting the youthful wrong turn that led him to his embattled foxhole: "I'd rather be flying, I'd rather be dead, than out of my head and training these guns on those men in the sand".
One paratrooper whispered that, given the wretchedness of his emergency accommodation, he might have elected to spend the next few weeks in an Afghanistan foxhole, but then he brightened and allowed that there was indeed a surge of excitement coursing through this recast section of the old East End.
His hilltop foxhole gave him a 360-degree view unavailable to any of the allied or German generals.
Fear, on the other hand — real fear, foxhole and plague fear, which the city really knew for the first time on 9/11 — is something very different.
(Egan, during this period, was "a seeker," Bratton recalled. He was raised Catholic, and aspires to more religiosity than he achieves. "I'm a foxhole guy," Egan told me. "When I've got my heart broken or I'm on somebody's hit list, that's when I get down and pray").
The basement, which is sometimes called the foxhole or the dungeon, has showers and a laundry room, for those working late, plus an oxygen-sealed computer room that houses the firm's proprietary database — once a major selling point and now more of a stage prop, given the free availability of historical data on the Internet.
The foxhole was on a hill not far from the Tajikistan border.
Zeller was dimly aware that someone had jumped into his foxhole.
