Memorial Day 2010
May 31, 2010
Remember when counting the cost of war, it takes a whole family to deploy one soldier.
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Breaking News- By: grahamcstrouse February 22, 2012@Chuck Hill One quick and dirty possibility (and let's be honest, Mike would appreciate that sort of approach) would be to set up a moderated group on facebook. It's a little crude, yeah, but there are some potential advantages. We could cover more ground. We wouldn't have to dig up somebody with web design skill & with 4 or 5 or 6 moderat […]
- By: Chuck Hill February 16, 2012grahamcstrouse, I know what you mean. I still come here occasionally because there are still a few interesting posts. (Particularly Thank you Scott B.) I write for CGBlog.org, but the focus there is narrow, being Coast Guard centric. I do virtually all the writing, but other people started it. I would not have a clue how to start from scratch. I commonly che […]
- By: grahamcstrouse February 12, 2012Gentlemen, this is a bit off-point, I suppose, but I miss New Wars. Civilized and intelligent discussion on crucial matters is such an Internet rarity. Do y'all suppose it's possible we might revive the forum in some way? Not as a stump, but as a branch. It's just a thought, I guess. It's just that their is so little informed discourse on […]
- By: grahamcstrouse February 22, 2012
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- By: dinoflaggellateThe US spending as much as the 8 next leading military spenders instead of the 16 next leading military spenders, I guarantee no one would f*ck with them.
- By: Concretehttp://thetechlusion.com/?p=803
- By: AlexanderPiezoelectricity would be a secondary power source to the AIP system, so it would simply be producing power whenever there was a change in pressure, which would occur all the time. Pressure changes would occur when changing depth, when maneuvering, and from wave action.
- By: KurtI should have added emphasis that my last suggestion is a submarine gunboat (and my arsenal ship the true replacement of the much adored battleships). :)
- By: dinoflaggellate
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Thanks, Mike. Wilfred Owen was considered to be the best of the WWI poets. He served bravely in the trenches until the end, and wrote unsparingly of the horrors of war. Richard Wilbur, the grand old man of American poetry, fought for three years in Italy and up the boot into Germany, and wrote some of the best verse in English to come out of WWII. He’s still going strong at age 84.
Well put Wilfred and thanks Hudson!
Arms and the Boy
Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade
How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;
Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash;
And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.
Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads
Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads.
Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth,
Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death.
For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.
There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;
And God will grow no talons at his heels,
Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.
by Wilfred Owen, killed on the Western Front, 1918.