On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:02:17 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Snafu wrote:
"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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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?


That you don't know is telling in itself.

I suppose it might make you feel a little better if we just ignored
the signs and kept to ourselves in blissful ignorance while the forces
of darkness continued to build against us.

I suppose you'd then reluctantly agree that when the military is
called to duty to defend our shores against the waves of terrorist
attacks, that it's justified. Only by then the casualty count will be
much higher in both military and innocent U.S. citizens.
But that's preferable to what we're doing now right?

Dave