And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men.
VOA: special.2009.04.12
His sons love the game - proof that the national team's exploits can inspire young people at the grass roots.
Some observers believe that nurturing young players on soft-grass academy playing fields deprives them of the basic skills that previous generations learned on the hard surfaces of neighborhood streets and tight corners of the schoolyard.
Mr. Marlantes puts you in the heads of scared young men walking blindly in column through head-high grass in terror of trip-wires and ambush by enemies fighting on their home turf, or hacking their way through impenetrable bush overwhelmed by fatigue, jungle rot, fear, sickness, tigers and leeches.