Jim Macdonald on Blast Injuries

Part of a strangely interesting (right, understandably interesting) series...let's hope we only need to refer to this information for fiction-writing purposes! Though the kind of traumas Jim Macdonald describes could be associated with side effects of fracking...

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015024.html

Gettysburg: The 150th Anniversary

Jim Macdonald has the short version of the story:

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015212.html

The long version has filled several books and spills over into annual reenactments...and if I lived near Gettysburg, this year, I think I'd try to go somewhere else this week. The town must be packed.