The Trojan War Museum by Ayse Papatya Bucak

Author:Ayse Papatya Bucak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

SOLDIER: I’ve never felt more significant than when I was in combat, but really I’ve never been more insignificant.

SOLDIER: I think if we could have gone home together—like the boys in earlier wars, who were all from the same town and stayed together and fought for their homes and went back to their homes—together—I think if we could have gone home together, we could have helped one another. But we got spread everywhere. The battalion was my home, and I fought for it, and when I left I didn’t really have a home anymore.

Tell me: who will build the memorial to those who died in a pile of the dead, thrown there while still alive? Who will memorialize those shot with their hands in the air? Who will mark the grave of limbs?

A lot of people are really angry.

Think: shouldn’t the immortals hold the world’s memory? Why else immortality?

Remember:

The overwhelming stench. The bone which did not withstand the blow. The twelve-boy blood price for Patroclus’s funeral pyre. The scale which weighed Hector’s fate.

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