"BJ Conner" wrote in message
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Men in suits send soldiers to war.

Well dang, it's beginning to look as I may have been the only person
in this entire group who wasn't aware of that.......must be one of
those current event thingies.

Did you know people on your ship
that wanted to throw kids throw kids overboard and watch em go
through
the screws?

Hard to say. I don't recall anyone admitting to such a desire, but
that was around thirty-two years ago.......and, if memory serves, I
was kinda drunk just about then. On the other hand, there were some
seriously ****ed up individuals on that boat......wouldn't surprise me
much if a few of them had some such ambition. Now that you've got me
thinking back to those days, I recall that I did know a good few
people who expressed a desire to perform similar acts and even several
who admitted to equally rough treatment of some folks in S.E. Asia
about that time, or in Europe or the south Pacific roughly twenty
years earlier.......um......they were mostly army or marines though,
not a suit among them.....well, not at the time they participated in
such amusements, anyway. Some of the WWII guys wore suits when I knew
them, but mostly they worked in factories and drank a lot and beat up
women and children and (if there were enough of them) ******s and
spics and wops and kikes, etc.

I didn't know anyone who felt that way either.

Bull****. If you've been living in this country for more than a
couple of years, you've known lots.

We seem to have a surplus of gutless chickenhawks ready to spill
anyones blood to make their freinds in Houston money.

Well, sometimes things ARE exactly what they seem. However, in
fairness, it should be pointed out that not all of them have friends
in Houston

Read Eisenhower's quote on soldiers and peace.

Post it....I'll read it.

Wolfgang