LAST EDITED ON 06-08-04 AT 03:07 PM (EDT)
 
>Come with me for a minute.

That deserves placement in the best war memorials in history. My hat is off to you - for the first time in this bloody, godforsaken year where old men again send the young to die, I remember what it was all about.

Every generation is called on to defend the world, to keep men free, and repair the world. That generation stood and did so magnificently. I will not call them the greatest like Brokaw, because I think their task was the most clear, the evil the most obvious. Other generations, like my parents and, I believe, ours, lack that clarity of vision. Nonetheless, we too face it. I only hope that my generation and my children's live up to the task.

My grandfather is an SOB, but he was an engineer, and setup lines of communication in Algeria for the conquest of Italy and the great deception of the Reich. I couldn't give a rats ass if he lives or dies now, but I think I might send him a thank you card. My uncle Marcel in the French Resistance definitely deserves one, although he treats his family like chattel. Maybe I'll ask my grandmother, holocaust survivor, to tell him. And then I'll thank her too, for resisting the great evil that truly threatend us all in her small ways. I wouldn't exist if it wasn't for those great, angry, scared, cowardly, heroic, average, amazing, foolish, normal men and women who took those beaches on the Normandy coast, the tiny villages, the machine gun nests, the bridges, and killing lanes, and kept fighting for 9 more months. God bless them all.

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Trigger Argee
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Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater the share of honour
God's will I pray thee wish not one man more" - Henry V, Act, IV Scene III