David Ehrenfeld | The Sun Magazine

David Ehrenfeld

David Ehrenfeld is a biology professor at Rutgers University. He lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.

— From December 1995
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Forgetting

On the nineteenth of April 1989, one of the huge gun turrets on the battleship Iowa blew up, killing the sailors who were manning it. Debate about responsibility for the explosion continued long afterward, but lost in the emotion of the tragedy was a curious aspect of the story.

December 1995
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