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Thread #58284 Message #923801
Posted By: Amos
01-Apr-03 - 03:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Marine Message from the Front Lines
Subject: RE: BS: Marine Message from the Front Lines
Lepus:
Virtually 30, man -- time to come of age!!
The human race has evolved a set of laws governing the conduct of war in a an often-vain attempt to prevent it from declining into barbarism.
I believe if you had been at that checkpoint, and that van had kept moving toward you in spite of warning shots, you probably would have pulled the trigger in a fit of panic, remembering what happened to your four colleagues who believed the peaceful taxi-driver the day before and ended up mincemeat on the sand. Not everyone is quite willing to experience that, you see.