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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2565)	9/15/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

I am glad to know you are/were a brave soldier. (I assume that occurred as a soldier) Journalist. Obscure third world conflict. I suspect that being an unarmed noncombatant in the middle of it is as intimidating as being a combatant. On the one hand, nobody will shoot you on purpose. On the other hand, nobody is shooting anybody on purpose, they're trying to keep their heads as low as possible and blowing off a lot of lead at where they think the other guys are. At least the soldiers know why they are there. I am not brave: on both occasions I became intimately acquainted with the dirt around me, and remained lucky. Luck is a big issue. If everything is horizontal you can be pretty safe just by keeping very very flat, but if mortars are involved it's a total crapshoot. I can't imagine artillery or bombing. After the second occasion I was seized by a conviction that this was not a smart way to earn a living, and changed professions. This all happened a long time ago, during the young-and-stupid period. I've been sort of shot at in the abstract a couple of times since, but that was small-time. My only point was that people who expect to die at any moment do not necessarily get sudden bursts of religious feeling.