Posts from Rice in thread „Outstanding military figures“

Not just the youngest people, either. The political demi-gods and their henchmen we are faced with today are in their 60’s and 70’s, and their rabid supporters are mostly middle-aged. Does the frenzied enthusiasm of the crowd in this film’s rally look familiar?

In the Western World, there are nearly 20% fewer democracies than in the year 2000.

After all our forefathers went through to establish democracies, why are people trying so hard to crush constitutions and deliver democratic countries into the hands of autocrats? Is the similarity to the world’s strongmen so very hard to see?

Quote from Carlos

Yes, observers could be invited, but only to see, not to advise. Guerrilla warfare here began in 1969 onwards. What is true that during the military intervention 1976-1983, we received

advice of the right wing French who practised a cruel retaliation to the Argelia independists, particularly General Raoul Salan. Their lessons were well understood.

Yikes. Please elaborate?

It is beautiful. With the heavy wool, the piping, brass buttons, and orders of chivalry, it must weigh 4-5 kilograms. It is great that his coat has survived all this time.

“Fought the Dutch?”

Grim task: thinking the unthinkable.

<shudder>

I am completely unfamiliar with Radetsky von Radetz, and I very much appreciate this historical glance into who he was before the war.

The world owes a debt of gratitude to General Von Choltitz for very surely risking execution for insubordination when he refused to destroy Paris. Try to imagine that majestic city if it now consisted of post-1950’s buildings!

How sad.

Very heartwarming story, about the locals’ inviting the sailors home to supper and the movement to knit sweaters for their warmth.

What a dog! Great story!

What a courageous man! I’m glad his story is being kept alive.

Our grandfathers gave their lives, not just for country, but for other peoples’ countries, for the overriding love of freedom.

Today we have people who won’t even take the coronavirus vaccination to save the lives of their families, their country, themselves.

What is the opposite of moral and ethical evolution?

Very sad, very moving. My husband’s older cousin was a paratrooper who died on D-Day. How unselfish, patriotic and heroic they were.

Thanks for posting that. I knew he was a war hero, but didn’t know the extent of his heroism or the emotional toll on him.

I can’t help thinking that our parents’ and grandparents’ generations had war forced upon them, while we seem to create our own problems.

He seems like the kind of pilot the RAF would want flying even with his chipped shoulder bone. Glad he got his “restorative brandy.”

David Niven was known as a thoroughly good man.

Am I remembering correctly that his wife was killed by a bomb during the war?

What a story! Reading about WWII heroes and their acts of immense bravery should inspire us to be more selfless people. Would we stand up to such tests?

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They didn't call him Black Bob for nuttin'.

It could have been an ethnic slur -

Well YES. I didn’t know about the violent mood swings, though.