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Off Topic/Non-philatelic Disc. : Boarding house

 

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nlroberts1961

12,8 cm Kanone 43 L/55 in blueprints only

03 Nov 2019
01:19:39am
perhaps a novel concept in the modern time, tastes of pbs - for the under the stairs lot, for those of us who lived the life or provided it however reluctantly, I make no apologies for Joan Morrissey who was a lady who deserved a much greater audience than she received by chance of faith

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If you can't understand what she's saying - well - I've been there - and when you face fearful odds ... take heart /
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APS #156650

03 Nov 2019
05:29:58am
re: Boarding house

Agincourt should be required for any basic Western Civ class. The effects were profound. I don’t mean to glorify war, but battles like this changed and defined the history of Europe.

I once read that only a tiny percentage of freshman USA college students knew that Agincourt was a famous battle. Isn’t that sad? Maybe they should toss out Romeo and Juliet and replace it with Henry V in High School English classes - cover literature AND history at the same time.

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04 Nov 2019
12:17:49pm
re: Boarding house

For me, the last lines of St Crispin's Day speech crystallize my experience of combat:

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.


There is no way that my fellow Vietnam veterans and I would define ourselves in conventional terms as "we happy few". "We angry few" would be more accurate. And I'm not so naive to think that Americans who chose not to serve in Vietnam, or who missed serving because of age or disability, "…hold their manhoods cheap" when they are in our presence. Nevertheless, combat for me was an experience that had a positive outcome: the Marines and fellow corpsmen I served with are indeed my brothers. In Vietnam, I learned that there are men whom I could implicitly trust, who would die for their comrades, if necessary. Ten Marines in my company did die on the day I was shot. Other Marines, one in particular, risked their lives to save mine. I would go through it again, if necessary, and I know those other surviving veterans would do the same.

Most non-veterans seem to think that we were driven by love of country — patriotism — when we were fighting in Vietnam. Not so. We were fighting to save ourselves and each other. So please don't thank me for my service, because I wasn't fighting for you or my country. (I was an American citizen then; now I am a dual Canadian-American citizen.)

It's fascinating to me that Shakespeare, who certainly did not experience mortal combat, had such a profound understanding of the psychology of combat veterans.

Bob

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nlroberts1961

12,8 cm Kanone 43 L/55 in blueprints only

03 Nov 2019
01:19:39am

perhaps a novel concept in the modern time, tastes of pbs - for the under the stairs lot, for those of us who lived the life or provided it however reluctantly, I make no apologies for Joan Morrissey who was a lady who deserved a much greater audience than she received by chance of faith

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If you can't understand what she's saying - well - I've been there - and when you face fearful odds ... take heart /

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03 Nov 2019
05:29:58am

re: Boarding house

Agincourt should be required for any basic Western Civ class. The effects were profound. I don’t mean to glorify war, but battles like this changed and defined the history of Europe.

I once read that only a tiny percentage of freshman USA college students knew that Agincourt was a famous battle. Isn’t that sad? Maybe they should toss out Romeo and Juliet and replace it with Henry V in High School English classes - cover literature AND history at the same time.

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04 Nov 2019
12:17:49pm

re: Boarding house

For me, the last lines of St Crispin's Day speech crystallize my experience of combat:

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.


There is no way that my fellow Vietnam veterans and I would define ourselves in conventional terms as "we happy few". "We angry few" would be more accurate. And I'm not so naive to think that Americans who chose not to serve in Vietnam, or who missed serving because of age or disability, "…hold their manhoods cheap" when they are in our presence. Nevertheless, combat for me was an experience that had a positive outcome: the Marines and fellow corpsmen I served with are indeed my brothers. In Vietnam, I learned that there are men whom I could implicitly trust, who would die for their comrades, if necessary. Ten Marines in my company did die on the day I was shot. Other Marines, one in particular, risked their lives to save mine. I would go through it again, if necessary, and I know those other surviving veterans would do the same.

Most non-veterans seem to think that we were driven by love of country — patriotism — when we were fighting in Vietnam. Not so. We were fighting to save ourselves and each other. So please don't thank me for my service, because I wasn't fighting for you or my country. (I was an American citizen then; now I am a dual Canadian-American citizen.)

It's fascinating to me that Shakespeare, who certainly did not experience mortal combat, had such a profound understanding of the psychology of combat veterans.

Bob

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