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At Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in 1976 the Army sprayed tens of thousands of
blackbirds in the middle of winter with an avicidal detergent called Tergitol so that they would freeze
to death as insulation was removed from their feathers. Ann Free, Schweitzer biographer, reported that as the heat
rose as mist from their dying bodies, so their souls to rose to God.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/26/archives/army-again-mounts-an-attack-on-birds-at-kentucky-base.html

(Footnote: In the past I used the name O Anna Niemus (Oh Anonymous) as a pen name.)