--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/9/06 11:03:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Do you wish nobody ever gave their life for your country? > > > I can't speak for the past. For the present, Yes, absolutely Yes, I > wish this foolish and insane idea of giving one's life for one's > country was not seen as valid. > > > > Speaking for the past is very important. We learn from our past or we are > doomed to repeat it as the old saying goes. I think everybody would like to see > the idea of giving one's life for his country as being foolish and > unnecessary, but at this time in man's evolution it just hasn't gotten there yet. As > long as people value political, economic, and religious freedom and there are > people that are absolutely hell bent on denying your freedoms that you > cherish, it will be necessary for some to lay their lives down for their society and > their society owes them a very great debt of gratitude. >
I can't remember where I read this -- "A hermit in the house"? -- but when in I think it was the '60s, a was broke out between India and China, MMY returned to India. The explanation in the book was something to the effect: I don't know what a monk could do in a time of war but I felt it my obligation to return to my homeland. Now, that isn't a pledge "to die for my country" but it certainly does signal a willingness to enter into an area of danger for no other rationale reason than love of country, sacrifice and duty...characteristics not too far away from "to die for my country". To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
