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Just to say again (alas!) that a soldier's sacrifice is not measured by the commanding officer's judgment or competence.
Memorial Day, 2008
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SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS
SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS
Days of Future Past
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- Rick
- A product of the 1950s myself, stuck here on Earth - so let's not mess it up too much more.
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6 comments:
So True.
Ferrell
Rick, thanks for posting this site.
Lest we forget.
True.
However, I don't get the reference in the title.
Jim - 4082 was the number of US military dead when I wrote the piece. The link on "sacrifice" goes to a tally, now alas 4084.
Damn straight. Otherwise we'd have generations of armies that fell over their own feet, and people would have given up resorting to war and turned to diplomacy.
Damn those brave and competent people! /intense sarcasm.
Tammy - intense sarcasm, indeed. One of the saddest subtleties of history is that bad leaders so rarely have trouble finding good soldiers.
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