On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 09:00:43AM +0000, Scottie Bowman wrote: >I personally have little doubt that the creation of Holden & >the Glasses & the rest of them would not haved been possible >but for the experiences of Sergeant X. I do not mean to trivialize the moving remarks you made, Scottie, by raising a pop-culture comparison, but when I sat through the opening half-hour of the movie "Saving Private Ryan," I said in a whisper, a stupor, "This is where Sergeant X came from." The idea that the man who wrote that character lived through some version of what I saw on screen upset me in a way I cannot express. If you see the movie, and then re-read the story, it's virtually not possible to miss the connection. --tim o'connor