"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
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well put Dave.....i would say "they played the hand that was dealt
them"... at the
time......

it may be hard for some folks to understand that now...

Nah, not at all hard to understand. They were all heroes.....just like all
the German and Japanese and Vietnamese and Russian and Chinese and Korean
and Panamanian and Mexican and South African and Palestinian and Finnish and
English and French and Spanish and Portuguese and Colombian and Venezuelan
and Brazilian and Belgian and Syrian and Egyptian and Israeli and Polish and
Lithuanian and Romanian and Serb and Slovak and Mongol and Viking and
Teutonic and Roman and Greek and Moorish and Gothic and Visigothic and
Vandal and Tatar and Babylonians and Hittites and Midianites and Philistines
and Aztecs and Olmecs and Incas and Zulus and Masai and Lakota and Iroquois
and Hurons, etc. etc. etc. Yep, heroes, one and all. None of them wanted
to do it, but by golly the job needed to be done so they went out and did
it. After all, if THEY didn't go out and bash, smash, slash, shoot, flay,
skewer, impale, explode, rape, incinerate, dismember, poison, bury alive, or
otherwise destroy the world's children, who would?

And you indescribably evil thugs, butchers, murderers, idiots, thieves,
liars, rapists, back stabbers, adulterers, money worshippers and all around
filth dare to trumpet yourselves as the champions of freedom, valor, honor
and decency?

Wolfgang