ABSTRACT
Paul Fussell, in his masterful study of Western Front memories from World War I, traced a path of stories, images, language and memory that survives in contemporary life. He showed how ink from the well of the trenches still writes our present histories:
In this study of a small bit of that culture of the past, I have tried to present just a few such recognition scenes. My belief is that what we recognize in them is a part, and perhaps not the least compelling part, of our own buried lives.1
