(January 10, 2015 at 9:18 am)Rhythm Wrote: Must make for shitty and depressing documentaries. I have plenty of funny anecdotes...you'll rarely hear me tell a "war story". Maybe, just maybe...soldiers use humor to cope with pain? Not sure how you could say that this doesn't have to do with winning or losing - as all of those countries you mentioned lost - alot...even the ones on the "winning" side.
I was speaking to a soldier (years ago) who fought in the Falklands.
He told the story of one of his fellow soldiers who was caught in an artillary blast who screamed
"I've lost my arm".
Only to be answered by his mate a few meters away.
"No you haven't....it's over here" waving the bloody arm.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
