Young Men and Fire by Maclean Norman

Author:Maclean, Norman [Maclean, Norman]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch dead asking if I could talk to her, and she returned through the common friend gentle word saying that even after all these years she was unable to talk about her son’s death. I thought next I would try a father, and he came in dignity, feeling no doubt it was a challenge to him that he must meet as a man, and he talked in dignity until I began to tell him about his son’s death. I had assumed that he knew some of the details of that death and, as a scientist, would care for other details that would help him participate in his son’s last decisions, very thoughtful ones though tragic. As I mistakenly went on talking, his hands began to shake as if he had Parkinson’s disease. He could not stop them, so there is no story, certainly no ending to a story, that can be found by communicating with the living who loved the young who are dead, at least none that I am qualified to pursue. A story at a minimum requires movement, and, with those who loved those who died, nothing has moved. It all stopped on August 5, 1949. So if there is more to this story for me to find, I shall have to find it somewhere else.

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