This Band of Brothers by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall Go tell them at Athens, you who pass by, That here obedient to her laws we lie. –Simonides (480 BC) from the epitaph for the 100 Spartans at Thermopylae For a thousand generations, the story of the one hundred Spartans who died to the last man at the battle of Thermopylae in the fifth century BC has served as a model of military heroism. “Obedient to her laws”, the Spartans followed orders and held the pass long enough for the Greeks to rally their forces against the…
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Space: Above and Beyond: “The Farthest Man from Home”
The Farthest Man from Home by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall It still looks too much like “Battlestar Galactica”. “Space: Above and Beyond” aired its first regular season episode, “The Farthest Man from Home”, on Friday and it failed to ignite me. The computer graphics were top notch. The acting was fine, and the writing, as always, had the undercurrents of poetry that brand all of executive producers Glen Morgan and Jim Wong’s work. But somehow it just did not click for me. Am I too old for this show? I love space opera. I love “Star Wars”.…