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   Lisa Childress said, 6 months ago

   <gulp!>
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   Varnes said, 6 months ago

   At least they tried to end all wars….It’s not their fault the rest of humanity let them down….War. What is it good for? Nothing!
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   Rottiluv said, 6 months ago

   Huh, I know the last Canadian veteran died in 2010. I’ll have to mull on this for a while.
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   Orion said, 6 months ago

   Salute!

   And from a species-wide point of view, war is actually of tremendous value (From any even remotely personal point of view it SUCKS) – huge mixing of genes, technology advances, culture sharing/spreading, a pruning of excess population, etc…

   But speaking as someone who’s been IN a war…They suck. LOL

   Orion
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   Magnolia42 said, 6 months ago

   @Varnes

   Absolutely nothing!
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   Fairportfan2 said, 6 months ago

   Over at “New Adventures of Queen Victoria”, yesterday, i quoted a couple of poems from Robert W Service’s “Rhymes of a Red Cross Man”.
   .
   Here’s another:
   .
   war widow
   .
   ‘twas with a heart of leaden woe
   poor alphonze went to war;
   and though it’s true he did not know
   what he was fighting for,
   he grieved because unto marie
   he’d been but three weeks wed:
   tough luck! another three and he
   was listed with the dead.
   .
   marie was free if she would fain
   another spouse to choose;
   but if she dared to wed again
   her pension she would lose.
   and so to mourn she did prefer,
   and widow to remain,
   like many dames whose husbands were
   accounted with the slain.
   .
   yet she was made for motherhood
   with hips and belly broad,
   and should have born a bonny brood
   to render thanks to god.
   ah! if with valour alphonze hadn’t
   fallen in the fray,
   proud marie would have been a glad
   great grandmother today.
   .
   yet maybe it is just as well
   she has not bred her kind;
   the ranks of unemployment swell,
   and flats are hard to find.
   for every year the human race
   richly we see increase,
   and wonder how they’ll find a place …
   well, that’s the curse of peace.
   .
   so let us hail the gods of war
   with joy and jubilation,
   who favour foolish mankind for
   they prune the population;
   and let us thank the hungry guns
   forever belching doom,
   that slaughter bloodily our sons
   to give us elbow room.
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   ScullyUFO said, 6 months ago

   @Magnolia42

   Say it again!
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   finale said, 6 months ago

   @Fairportfan2

   Thanks for remembering those often not mentioned. I knew quite a few.
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   toppop52 said, 6 months ago

   If you’ve never read of the 1914 Christmas Truce, please go to this link and read it, it will leave you misty eyed and knowing on that battlefield man missed a chance to truly end all wars. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/weekinreview/25word.ready.html?pagewanted=all
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    Burnside217 said, 6 months ago

    Well said Mr. Johnson. Thank you veterans everywhere.
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    Flossie Mudduck said, 6 months ago

    Thank you, Dad, for your service in WWII, and thank you, brother Jack for VN, and thank you nephew Tripp for Bosnia and Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m deeply sorry you had to go, but proud of you all.
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    PipeTobacco said, 6 months ago

    I wish my father were alive, I miss him terribly. He was a WWII veteran and was in the 101st Airborne Division and was at the Invasion of Normandy. He received a Purple Heart as well. I regret that my father never told us about his experiences during WWII, but he was such a wonderful father. I miss him so very much.
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    George Alexander said, 6 months ago

    If Mittens had been elected, I can see him, in my mind;s eye, commemorating Veterans Day in Paris, Accompanied by his five sons.
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    sfreader1 said, 6 months ago

    @Fairportfan2

    A plague or other epidemic could make the population smaller too, and without so much destruction of property!
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    cynks said, 6 months ago

    @toppop52

    Also, a fine movie – “Joyeaux Noel” – tells the story of the 1914 Christmas truce.
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