Re: Cassini: its cost and purpose?
From: Mike Thomas (Mtom_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/04/04
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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:05:01 GMT
> Stop making it sound like there are those among us who think that killing
is
> okay. Especially me, you ultra-liberal rat ***. I take extreme
offense.
> My stepfather (the only "dad" I have known) jumped into Normandy on D-Day,
> and then went on to fight in Holland as the CO of the 101st Airborne,
506th
> Regiment, E Company during the push into Germany. He was not happy about
it
> one bit, but someone had to stop Hitler, and he and all the brave souls of
> "Easy" Company were willing to go through hell and back, to take him out.
> They didn't have a stealth fighter. They had to do it the hard way, taking
> 150% casualties in their own ranks. What did I learn from one of the
bravest
> humans to ever walk the earth? Guns, war and death are a terrible
solution,
> but until nations stop allowing themselves to be ruled by tyranny from
> within, it is good to develop more humane ways of killing, in order to
lower
> the death toll. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Now, get over yourself.
> :-)
Oh God, someone blowing their horn over D-Day. What a goofball!
Normandy was a joke! Bad joke. The US was after Russia, not Germany
by June of 1944. Many died and didn;t have to. Germany was well contained
before that
and would have been just a matter of time before they surrendered anyway.
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