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To: Centurion2000
There's a very interesting aside in the first chapter of The March Up where General "E-tool" Smith offers to stand a watch on the gun for the exhausted troops in a Bradley. The young trooper looks down and shakes his head no. "It's our war, sir," he said.

You can't go back. You want to, but you can't.

60 posted on 03/22/2007 9:03:08 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Great book, highly recommended to all who haven't read it.


62 posted on 03/22/2007 9:13:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Billthedrill
You can't go back. You want to, but you can't.

Yeah .... when you realize that it's also the first time you feel OLD. At least I did and I was only 33 when I felt it.

64 posted on 03/22/2007 9:37:47 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
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