From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 21:38:46 MDT
In a message dated 9/3/2002 3:06:30 PM Central Standard Time,
talon57@well.com writes: If this sort of thing is true my time spent in the
military was nothing more than an extremely destructive waste of four
valuable years of my life. A society that continues to believe this way is
probably doomed
Brian,
I served in the Navy. I enjoyed myself and consider my time well
spent. But there are two thoughts that run through my mind when this sort of
discussion comes up:
1. Someone once told me that about 4% of any general population are
naturally fitted to be warriors. I think trying to explain the motivations
of a warrior to the other 96% of the population is largely a waste of time --
they don't understand, they don't want to understand and they don't intend to
understand -- I say give up the effort. LOL
2. Kipling got it right in a poem whose name I have long since forgotten.
When it is peacetime that 96% don't want to hear about war. When danger is
clearly threatening they will rally around.
Ron h.
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