The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red LinePart IDawn came, and passed, and still they waited. The roses and blues of the dawn light changed to the pearl and misty grays of early morning light. Of course everyone had been up, and nervously ready, since long before dawn. But for today Colonel Tall had requested a new artillery wrinkle. Because of yesterday's heavy repulse, Tall had asked for, and got, an artillery time-on-target "shoot." This device, an artillery technique left over from World War I, was a metho...