Richard Rhodes
(1937 to present)
American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and
non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the
Atomic Bomb (1986)
"Before they reach their end, the pigs get a shower, a
real one. Water sprays from every angle to wash the farm off them. Then
they begin to feel crowded. The pen narrows like a funnel' the drivers
behind urge the pigs forward, until one at a time they climb onto the
moving ramp... Now they scream, never having been on such a ramp,
smelling the smells they smell ahead. I do not want to over-dramatize
because you've read all this before. But it was a frightening
experience, seeing their fear, seeing so many of them go by, it had to
remind me of things no one wants to be reminded of anymore, all mobs,
all death marches, all mass murders and executions..."
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