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To all the warriors and soldiers, past and present, here on WT and around the world: THANK YOU
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"GLAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE AND HAVE BEEN PROUD TO HAVE SERVERED"

Salute to all soldiers, veterans and their families. Without them no control or peace. And we in Europe know what peace is. Sixty years ago were mine (grand-)parents under a regime. Thanks to to allies we are free.

Dutchy

Termites do it in the dark!
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my grandfather taught people to drive higgins boats, his ship got sunk before he was shipped out to Europe. What a generation.

On a light side did you know that there was a brothel in new orleans very close to the higgins factory which ran 24/7. Legend has it that madam would complain about the plants noise and destroying the mood.

They are the reason we can keep rockin' in a free world. Salute !

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." - Carl Zwanzig

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watch history channel on the 5 star generals and admirals. In it Admiral Nimitz early in his career turned down an offer to earn 25,000 per year with a five year contract to stay in the Navy and earn 3500 per year. God bless him.

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Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

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" When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane!"

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did you see the history channel special on Iwa Jima. 7000 men dead on such a small island. the projections were that invasion of Japan would have meant the US would have had to be willing to sacrifice 1 million men. I can not imagin going to the american people today and saying we are going to end terrorism for all time but we have to to loose 1 million men--that generation had a heart that and willingness to server on a mass scale we will never see again.

Mattlott, in ww1 was it even worser. Villages and cities has pall-battalions. That will say, you sign for the army and go, but also your brothers, friends and family. Sometimes in one strike at the front a whole street of a town lost their men. After a few of this, the pall-battalions had to split up in regular battalions. Lord Kitchnener has made a big mistake with that batallions idea.
World War One is the war where a whole generation almost is killed at a front.

But, every war is a drama for families that lost a love-one.

Salute
Dutchy

Termites do it in the dark!
(47FS Barksdale afb)

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correct but missing my point i dont think our generation has the stomach to pay the price that either the ww1 or ww2 generation did.

Not for a long haul, daily major campaigns, anyway.

"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." - Carl Zwanzig

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Okay, i read your words again Mattlott. I mussed say, you have a point about that. When I see war movies about ww1 and ww2 you see the people stand together and behind a decision of the politicians, for 4/5 years long.
And now, when something happen. Are the people first behind the politicians, but when it takes longer than came the first protests.

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Dutchy

Termites do it in the dark!
(47FS Barksdale afb)

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did you see the history channel special on Iwa Jima. 7000 men dead on such a small island. the projections were that invasion of Japan would have meant the US would have had to be willing to sacrifice 1 million men. I can not imagin going to the american people today and saying we are going to end terrorism for all time but we have to to loose 1 million men--that generation had a heart that and willingness to server on a mass scale we will never see again.
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I fear the idiots of my generation would pull a france and just put up the white flag.

"Nobody ever won a war dying for their country. You win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his." - George S. Patton.
My motto: pacis per vires