colonel odis
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:43 PM
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"grandpa, what was it like when america was a world power?" |
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got a feeling it's what we'll be asked at family dinners in a few years.
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Downtown Hound
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:46 PM
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IT SUCKED!
Young men and women were constantly sent off to die in pointless wars and there was no attention being paid to the problems that ailed it at home. I for one will not be lamenting the day America loses its role as the only superpower. We've got more than enough nukes to defend ourselves from invasion so I'm not really worried about that.
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:50 PM
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Watch your tongue, boy, disloyal and defeatist statements like that make Empress Jenna very unhappy.
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