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To: Tax-chick
“After knowing Wingate, every other man was just too boring.” Wow! That's huge.
3 posted on 08/08/2012 1:22:36 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Milagros

It makes me wish I’d met him ;-). I’m sort of fascinated, in a literary way, by men like that ... the “doomed warrior” archetype. Stonewall Jackson, Jonathan Netanyahu, George Patton, Orde Wingate, John Nicholson ... seems like all the existed for was fighting, and they knew it.


4 posted on 08/08/2012 1:25:56 PM PDT by Tax-chick (If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
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