Tag: Plowshare

Backstories: "Plowshare" (2020)

(Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) While historians tend to focus on the immediate actions of war, they don’t usually worry about the implications of what gets left behind on the battlefield. When peace breaks out, neither side worries overmuch about what to do with weapons, structures, facilities, and other materiel legacies of the conflict, leaving that for the ages, the elements, the survivors, and whatever…