"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Snafu wrote:
"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:04:37 -0500, Eisboch wrote:

Doug Kanter wrote:
Now, this is interesting, jps. This is something I don't have a
problem
with. If you're going into battle, you have to go in crazy, if
possible.
Hopefully crazier than the people you're going to be fighting.
However
you
reach that state of mind doesn't matter. I think it was a year or
so
ago
that Time Magazine ran an article on the fear felt by soldiers
going
into
battle. I've never been there, but I'd imagine that if you have a
way
of
reducing that fear, or channeling the adrenaline in some other
way,
you
just
do it. If nothing else, it makes you a more valuable member of a
team
if
you're able to think a little more clearly.

When you realize those mortars and bullets whizzing around your head
were meant for you, a lot of academic philosophy goes right out the
window.

What really gets to you is that some of those aren't meant for you,
but you are in the line of fire.

That puts a whole different perspective on the subject. :)

Which is more terrifying? Flying bullets & mortar shells, or when you
get
The Look from your wife?


The wife of a Marine from my town just received the visit notifying her
that
her 29 year old husband, and father of two little boys, was killed in
action
Monday. Now which do you think is more terrifying?

http://www.koin.com/news.asp?ID=1584

Another life wasted...


Indeed, and for absolutely no reason. A total wasted life, a new widow,
two fatherless boys, sacrificed for what?

For democracy, you ungrateful monster.