Posted on 01/22/2013 8:44:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Compare and contrast one Prince Harry with another. This week, our own Captain Wales, in the PlayStation language of modern warfare, spoke of the ugly, deadly reality of service in Afghanistan. "Take a life to save a life, that's what we revolve around. If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game." As a soldier, what mattered most was the safety of his mates. "I'm not here on a free pass … Our job out here is to make sure the guys are safe on the ground and if that means shooting someone who is shooting them, then we will do it."
Shakespeare's Henry V, on the eve of storming Harfleur, had it slightly differently. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; / Or close the wall up with our English dead. / In peace there's nothing so becomes a man / As modest stillness and humility." But his "band of brothers" were equally unafraid of drawing blood, and would "not leave the half-achieved Harfleur / Till in her ashes she lie buried".
The revelation that Prince Harry might have been involved, as an Apache helicopter pilot, in mortal combat operations in Afghanistan should come as little surprise to observers of both this reluctant Windsor "spare" and the history of British royalty. From the dawn of kingship on these isles, monarchy and armed service have gone hand in hand.
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Uh, two of G.W.Bush’s nephews are in the military now, I believe! One, George P. Bush,(Jeb’s oldest)is in the Navy, and another one just went into the Marines!(one of Neil’s kids, I think) I know you seem to dislike the Bush’s, but let’s get our basic facts straight, hmmm? Now I don’t know if they’re “in theatre” right now, but they are in training, or have been trained, that I know! Sheesh..
Ok, Moron may have been a little harsh.
Would “cretin” be acceptable?
BNP? Socialist, are you?
‘My respect goes to the EDL and BNP, the only ones doing anything to preserve the UK. Those are the real princes of Britain.’
No, no, just no. And no again.
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