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| Tango01 | 10 Jul 2020 9:54 p.m. PST |
"The war was fought from the air, on the ground and at sea but all who saw combat – all who fought and killed no matter which branch of service –would never forget it. "Combat is the acid test," Eugene Sledge wrote in his memoir With the Old Breed. "It's like the state of being perpetually excited without any outlet," Paul Fussell said. "And perpetually frightened without any outlet for it. And you have to depend entirely upon your quickness of spirit. If you see something over there out of the corner of your eye, and it's not supposed to be there, you have to be quicker than that person is at leaping up and shooting him. And he's going to do the same to you. So being alert and being quick all the time is very important. I hadn't realized that much in training but I did after the first week on the line."…"
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 Legion 4  | 11 Jul 2020 8:31 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2020 12:11 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my good friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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