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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (56442)	11/6/2000 10:04:08 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I have a Garand, one of the few Winchester Garands made. It's hard to believe our men hiked carrying this weapon because of the weight. I guess when your life depended on the gun it felt light. Like a best friend.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (56442)	11/7/2000 9:22:18 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Respond to of 71178

I have no love for the culture that created the concept of the East Asian CoProsperity Sphere and all the pain and suffering that this bigoted view imposed on its neighbors, but I've contemplated the fate and what must have been the fear that invaded the mind of the individual Japanese defenders on that island. I don't think I can truly bridge the gap but it seems to me that I would have been in deathly fear, dug into the rock like moles, being pursued by a pressing deadly enemy especially with the intimidation of relative physique. Those American boys must have towered over the Japanese man to man. A lot of dogs were used in the islands. A lot of dogs died in the service of the Americans. There is a small plot, a dog cemetery that was restored to its former dignity for the 50th Liberation Day festivities on Guam a few years back. I'm sure those dogs were equally loved and feared depending on position. That was a hellish war but then all war is hell. There have been at least three progressions evidenced in the prosecution of war over the centuries, the rapid advancement of attack and defense tools and mechanisms, the inexorable trend of needing more and more support personnel to provision and position the individual soldier over the course of history, and the increasing amount of violence deliverable at the point of individual attack. Yet there is a timelessness to it, as evidenced today on the eve of the new millennium by the rock throwing Palestinians attempting to assert what they see as their rightful place in time and space. Quite unrelated, I was intrigued, today, reading about a proposed circular array of satellite bearing mirrors which would channel xray signals into a target processing satellite. This whole array would be located somewhere beyond the Moon's influence and would be used to greatly magnify the visibility of staring into the brink of massive black holes. We are a tool maker species. Looks like we will be eavesdropping on quite a bit more of the Universe in the coming years. I wonder what sorts of hellish images of otherworldly warfare we may someday come to "discover"? And a more pleasant note to close. On Guam today, there is a mutt breed of dogs, semi-wild called boonie dogs. These must be derived in some part from the animals that were leftover alive after the end of the hostilities in that long ago war. God bless the boonie dogs of Guam.