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Reckoning's avatar

I’m once borrowed Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man and found the world it described idyllic. Such a tragedy that it was destroyed. When I was younger I saw some romance in it, but reading Paul Fussell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner and other such literature cured me.

In high school I had a WWII veteran driving instructor remark that he would like to see me in the military after he saw my aimless, diffident driving. I see what he meant but I’m still glad I never had to join any military or participate in a war.

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John Slaughter's avatar

I don’t know about the Somme, but I’d I didn’t have kids I’d go back to Afghanistan or Iraq in a heartbeat.

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