Oooops -- sorry -- I meant "Gulf I" in my email of this morning!
Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 8:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Karen Watters Cole; Keith Hudson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Gulf War II/Israeli War IV > > > Lawrence de Bivort wrote: > [snip] > > There are profound differences between the situation now and that that > > prevailed in WWI. > [snip] > > For those who remember history, there is indeed > a BIG difference: > > THose who, in 1914, were bored with peace and longed for > the glory of war, and who believed they would > be home for Christmas, knew only the Horatian > interpretation of the following phrase, whereas > we also know Wilfred Owen's interpretations of it: > > Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. > > (http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/poems/owen1.htm) > > We also have learned the lesson of the machine gun. > To once again adduce the title of a fine book > by a military psychiatrist: "No More Heroes". > > -- > > Unfortunately, from my perspective, it looks > like Americans are still "getting off on" > sentimentality about "heroes", "hallowed ground" > (more like: hollowed ground, in my estimation...), etc. > > I fear our motto [as seen not from our own > perspective but from that of "the owl of Minerva"...] is: > > Yet again. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ >
