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SerthVarnee
Mar 13, 2011

It has been two zero days since last incident.
Big Super Slapstick Hunk
Oh yeah, these are great.

War is told way too often from the viewpoint of a satellite that can't see anything other than unit formations, map points and dates of the big battles.

But war is personal, it's unique for every participant and it is descriptive and sobering in a way that a general's hand waving of events could never be.

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SerthVarnee
Mar 13, 2011

It has been two zero days since last incident.
Big Super Slapstick Hunk

Moon Slayer posted:

Grandpa Has More Thoughts About Pax Americana








And with that we've pretty much reached the end of anything that could be tangentially related to grandpa's military service, which is the reason I figured his writing might be of some interest to people here in the first place. Still, there's a couple more things I could post if people want, like the time he met President Carter, or the time my mom was a toddler and fell off the staircase and he and grandma had an argument about whether or not shaking her was the right thing to do.

The last 6 lines on page 222 certainly haven't aged well.

Otherwise this is great stuff and your Grandpa sounds like an outstanding guy.

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