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I grew up during the Vietnam War. It was on TV and in the newspapers and magazines daily throughout my childhood and early teenage years. It was extremely hard to understand just what the hell was going on over there and in the US as well. It's held a lot of interest for me through my adult years. The whole issue just seemed go away like everyone just wanted to forget. Weird. A lot of Vietnam vets are around my age but a little older and I've known and worked with lot of guys that served over there. Just more personal I guess. _______________________ “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” ― Frank Zappa | |||
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WWI. The descriptions of combat in Europe are unforgettable. Nothing like that has happened since. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
In what way? "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
I voted for WWII, but in reality I'd like to see more about the Korean War. It seems like it's the war that wants to be forgotten. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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First - WWII I love to think about Hitler with a PPK pressed against his head while contemplating how things went so wrong. Second - War for Independence. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Be Careful What You Wish For... |
You spelled the War of Northern Aggression wrong. ____________________________________________________________ Georgeair: "...looking around my house this morning, it's not easily defended for long by two people in the event of real anarchy. The entryways might be slick for the latecomers though...." | |||
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We gonna get some oojima in this house! |
I don't know if interesting is the right word but watching the first Gulf War live on TV was as surreal as it gets. Watching armor and infantry movements (redacted and edited as needed) every night was riveting. I had a lot of high school buddies over there. I remember seeing CNN predict massive US casualties when the US met the Nebuchanezzar Division.... ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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WW2 was probably the most powerful and difficult event in the last 2,000 years. What a desperate time, but it was great the way people worked together to defeat two great evil empires. -c1steve | |||
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I had relatives in the War Between The States that I have been researching but I also had some in the Revolution. Beyond this, I have always had a fascination with the Spanish-American War probably because there were so many changes going on in the world during that time. | |||
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I have 168 books on the Civil War and the war I was Viet-Nam 1 book. | |||
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I voted WWII for #1 interest. My grandfather served on a destroyer in the Pacific. | |||
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I was in Infantry Officer Basic Course at the time at Ft. Benning. We were told matter-of-factly during the build-up it was likely we would back-fill WIA / KIA young LTs after the initial invasion. Of course that didn't happen. The war pretty much came and went while I was in my initial slate of training... As to the original question-- WW2 is so immense - that one is up there many of my respected trainers / mentors in the Army were Viet Nam vets so I have read a lot about that conflict ------------------------------------ Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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WWII. My father fought in and survived The Battle of the Bulge. I have read so many books regarding it (WW2). My father did not like to talk about it much. | |||
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Freethinker |
One of my favorite quotes from before the war: “The Iraqis are too combat-experienced to run away under fire. … The [U.S.] Army’s armored and mechanized forces can play no offensive role against the vast defensive strength of the Iraqi army.” — Edward N. Luttwak, Center for Strategic and International Studies “I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.” — The Wizard of Oz This life is a drill. It is only a drill. If it had been a real life, you would have been given instructions about where to go and what to do. | |||
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Civil war WWII WWI "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Well my wife gave a DNA sample to the internet and got her entire history. Finding all kinds of ancestors that fought in the revolution and then today found a direct ancestor who was a Lt in the war of 1812. Too many Civil war vets to count. A woman from the Local chapter of DAR wants her to come to a meeting. So reading up on this 1812 vet right now. | |||
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It's not easy being me |
That's the term my dad often used. _______________________________________ Flammable, Inflammable, or Nonflammable....... Hell, either it Flams or it doesn't!! (George Carlin) | |||
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Staring back from the abyss |
When I lived back east, one of my favorite things to do was wander through old cemeteries. While that may seem rather macabre, the history that one can glean from reading those old decaying headstones is remarkable. Many children died in the 1700s and surprisingly, quite a few people lived into their 80s back then as well, which is amazing in an age before any reasonable sanitation, medical care, antibiotics, effective pain meds, etc.... I once found a headstone, pushed over by a very old oak tree. Beside it was a marker pushed into the ground which read "Here lies a veteran of the Revolution". I remember standing there, likely not far from where he fought, and thinking, "Wow, the history that this place has seen...". Since then, I visited many old forts and battlefields of the Revolution and have been struck by just how hard the conditions must have been and how brutal the combat. I've been told that I have a wild imagination, but I do seem to have the ability to put myself into the period...especially when I'm standing right where it happened. I had that feeling at Gettysburg as well. Anywho, the Revolution is where it all began and none of the other wars would have happened for us had it not been for that one victory. It makes that one all the more special for me. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts |
Remember the Maine: I am interested in the Spanish American War as I have an interest in Teddy and his big stick | |||
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Happily Retired |
Without a doubt...WW2. .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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