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To: Pink Minion who wrote (70493)	7/17/2003 1:01:47 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

To be perfectly honest, I cannot understand 18-year olds living in prosperous countries at peace who volunteer for the army. I sympathize with their suffering in war, surely, but to a lesser degree than the civilians they kill...

To: Pink Minion who wrote (70493)	7/17/2003 5:30:37 PM
From: TI2, TechInvestorToo	Respond to of 70976

<What amazes me is how we used to fight wars in the 18th century. Standing in rows and then marching forward to take the first bullets. It must have required some real dumb people to fight those wars. I guess the gatlin gun made that not such a smart idea> The Chinese called this "human wave" "human ocean", when MacArthur got greedy in Korea-thats what they did. The SK and allies could not reload fast enough as the wave hit and over ran them. Probably still part of the protocol. ti2