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The Military |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
Ads depict the military as a great profession to get into: full of perks, bonuses and perhaps a diploma or two for later... Ah, the good life beckons. Or does it? How can having a license to kill be called a noble profession? why give soldiers medals and call them heroes after killing innocent people in some foreign land? After blasting the earth and destroying the environment? Heroes, indeed! Who did they kill for? The multinational corporation’s profits; for money, for numbers... for nothing and when they return home will they find that life here has substantially improved? Heroes? No. At best: fools; at worst: murderers. |
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gmcooper Junior Member
since 2007-05-30
Posts 47 |
This is a difficult subject, debate bait, as they would say (and this isn't the forum for that) so I will only comment on the freedom we have to post our expressions and how that freedom came about is self-explainatory. You've expressed yours well. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
The Military serves a purpose... sometimes right and sometimes wrong... Consider this...without the Nations possessing a Military; after France and Poland and Russia and Great Britian, among many others, Hitler would have conquered the United States...haven't mentioned Japan attacking Pearl Harbor yet...facing these events without a Military is perhaps desirable to you, but not desirable for me...suggest you read Winston Churchill's six volumes about "The Second World War."... James |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. Our God and soldier we alike adore Ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: after deliverance, both alike requited Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. Francis Quarles (1632) . |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
oh, are we allowed to talk about the war in such a transparent thinking? good poem. |
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Ringo 
since 2003-02-20
Posts 3684Saluting with misty eyes |
The next time you see one of those same murderers, be sure to give them your thanks. It was people exactly like them who insured your right to say exactly what you just did. On its merits, though... I thought you did an excellent job writing this. What would you attempt to do...if you knew you could not fail?. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
The fact that you wrote this in English and not German makes me thank a soldier so much more  |
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