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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 01:09 PM
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"You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrfice somebody else's life.
They're plenty loud and they talk all the same. You find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead...

But what do the dead say? Did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god I'm glad I'm dead because deeath is always better than dishonor. Did they say I'm glad I died to make the world safe for demorcacy. Did they say I like death better than losing liberty? Did any of them say it's good to think I got my guts blown out for the honor of my country....

So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and feedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and stars and stripes forever?

You're godamn right they didn't."

Dalton Trumbo, "Johnny Got His Gun", Chapter 10

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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 01:19 PM
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1. Gracie Slick..."I would rather my country die for me"
She was one radical gal......I miss her style...
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 02:43 PM
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2. Only in an alternate universe.
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