Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2012 at 5:06pm:


How does it make ppl courageous to put themselves in harms way for little pay for no reason? Seriously we arent @ war or anything - we dont need defending. the only reason someone would join up nowadays to go overseas and fight in someone elses war is because they want to kill ppl. Not because they are "brave".

SOB

You must yourselves realize the power of your country, and feed your eyes upon her from day to day, till love of her fills your hearts; and then, when all her greatness shall break upon you, you must reflect that it was by courage, sense of duty, and a keen feeling of honour in action that men were enabled to win all this, and that no personal failure in an enterprise could make them consent to deprive their country of their valour, but they laid it at her feet as the most glorious contribution that they could offer.

For this offering of their lives made in common by them all they each of them individually received that renown which never grows old, and for a sepulchre, not so much that in which their bones have been deposited, but that noblest of shrines wherein their glory is laid up to be eternally remembered upon every occasion on which deed or story shall call for its commemoration. For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

These take as your model and, judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valour, never decline the dangers of war. For it is not the miserable that would most justly be unsparing of their lives; these have nothing to hope for: it is rather they to whom continued life may bring reverses as yet unknown, and to whom a fall, if it came, would be most tremendous in its consequences. And surely, to a man of spirit, the degradation of cowardice must be immeasurably more grievous than the unfelt death which strikes him in the midst of his strength and patriotism!

Soren wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2012 at 10:50am:


Marvellous stuff, old chap. Suharto? Mahatir? Lee Quan Yew?

Avram Horowitz wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2012 at 11:31am:


There are Israelis fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq?
I thought they just stayed at home and let everyone else do the fighting for them while shooting rock throwing children.

Avram Horowitz wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2012 at 11:47am:

Yes they are, they are Semitic and statistically have just as many of 'gods chosen people' in their population as Israel does.

adelcrow wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2012 at 11:51am:



I am a Reservist now until I am 45 years old.
I will go for 2 weeks of training on my return - please be assured I will be on call for IDF if it is ever required and again the Arab aggressors want another humiliation.

One day on my return next year I promise to post up the photo of my uncles in the Sinai in the 6 day war with a big Israeli flag deep into Egypt!!
We are brave and courageous people.

to you?

HA

You are a coward. Someone who would be frightened to death if he spend 1 single day in what we do.

Just a internet warrior as they say in the USA.