red baron wrote on Dec 13
th, 2015 at 2:36pm:
Hey Sir Bobby, in case you didn't get the mail out..World War 3 has already started.
It began when ISIS declared war on all us infidels, including the left wing dicks here who support them.
I missed that war. When was it?
"What if they gave a war and nobody came?" John Lennon.
Maybe I didn't get an invite.
http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2011/12/suppose-they-gave-war-and-nobody-came.h... Quote:“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
American poet and writer
A line from Sandburg’s epic prose poem The People, Yes (1936)
In the 1960s, several variations of an anti-war slogan began appearing on posters, in print and in songs. The version that became most common (as shown by the comparatively huge number of Google hits it gets) is “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came.” Other variations include “Suppose they gave a war and no one came” and “What if they gave a war and nobody came.” It’s not certain who coined the most familiar version, but this much is clear: all of the various iterations of the saying are ultimately descended from a line in Carl Sandburg’s book-length ode to America and it’s citizens, The People, Yes, first published in 1936.
In the poem, the line is said by a little girl who sees a group of soldiers marching in a parade. It’s from a part of the poem in which Sandburg seems to foresee the potential devastation of a second and possibly a third world war:
“The first world war came and its cost was laid on the people.
The second world war — the third — what will be the cost.
And will it repay the people for what they pay?...
The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked,
‘What are those?’
‘Soldiers.’
‘What are soldiers?’
‘They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can.’
The girl held still and studied.
‘Do you know ... I know something?’
‘Yes, what is it you know?’
‘Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.’