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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (119448)	12/26/2000 1:07:35 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 769667

--I don't even view it as a break. It was simply hard-earned deferred compensation- -for those lucky enough to survive. These boys put their lives on the line, and many of them lost that bet. -- i met a man once, landed in tunisia in late '42. was in the invasion of italy ('43/44), then the invasion of south france ('44). won a bronze star when he took out an mg42 in jan of '45. after the war he was one of 3 survivors from his original company. how many men in a company?... probably about 150 combat soldiers or more. i'll bet that many of the replacements in that company - well i'll bet they were replaced many times over. so it appears to me it was, fight until one of 3 things happens: 1) you're wounded badly enough that you're sent home 2) you're killed 3) the war ends brutal... andy