Monday, May 26, 2008

4082

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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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 26, 2008 at 1:03 PM

    So True.
    Ferrell

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  2. AnonymousMay 26, 2008 at 5:47 PM

    Rick, thanks for posting this site.

    Lest we forget.

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  3. AnonymousMay 28, 2008 at 8:09 PM

    True.

    However, I don't get the reference in the title.

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  4. RickMay 28, 2008 at 10:04 PM

    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.

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  5. Tamora PierceJuly 3, 2008 at 7:21 AM

    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.

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  6. RickJuly 8, 2008 at 8:48 PM

    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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