And that's just the point...NO ONE wants to even take a chance of being
shot at.....but the Vets took that chance. We owe 'em.
Ray
At 03:04 PM 11/9/97 -0500, Benjamin Ruset wrote:
>>A shiver ran down my spine when I read this, for my father-in-law died
>>last week.
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>It's a shame that soldiers don't get much recognition. Expecially with my
>generation. Maybe the absence of a major war in my generations memory has
>blinded us to the fact that strangers offered their lives protecting our
>rights, lives, etc. 'Tis a shame.
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>It takes a lot to be a soldier - I know that I'd probably never want to go
>under fire. Heck, I could have joined the Army Band, but I was afraid!
>Kudos to all the vets, alive or not, that have fought for their country and
>what they believe in.
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>BEN RUSET - http://www.monmouth.com/~bruset
>78 MGB Roadster - 89 Mercury Cougar
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>"If you gaze for a long time into an abyss,
> the abyss gazes also into you." - F.W. Nietzsche
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