The most complete ancient crossbow unearthed with terracotta army

chinadaily ^ | March 20, 2015 | Web Editor: Si Huan

[Sherman Logan]

The early settlers also all commented on how tall the Indians were.

[litehaus]

Compared to the diet of the old world which was wheat based and lacked variety for the poor it is not surprising that they grew taller and stronger.

And if your “Lord of the Manor” caught you eating HIS deer etc, your xxx was grass....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not just deer but even rabbits were off limits to the poor.

You couldn't gather wood in his lordships woods or let your animals graze in his fields.

[SMARTY]

I remember reading about a couple of sisters who were liberated by Americans and who had been living for years in a labor camp.

They were nearly dead when they were liberated.

They said their guards just ‘disappeared’ and they walked away from the rubble of the factory that had been bombed to smithereens.

Before long the Americans walked through their town. The people crowded to the street to see them and at first weren't sure who they were. They had seen soldiers going through their streets for decades.

She said the soldiers were like giants and she had never seen anything like it. The soldiers' uniforms of course, were in tatters but their equipment was incredible. They were all grubby from living rough for weeks, but she said she had NEVER seen such humble self-assurance, such nonchalant esprit de corps and once she saw the insignia and US flag on their coats, she started to cry. She said, ‘We knew then that we were free and would get decent treatment’.

These two girls were Hungarian Jews and their families had been comfortable. They were educated and spoke a couple languages, so the officer she introduced her self to immediately gave them a chit for food and clothes and the address they should go to for work as interpreters.

Yup...."America, the great Satan!!"

[cld51860]

We have so many reasons to be proud of our country and our countrymen. I love hearing and reading stories like that. Contrast that with something I read in “The Last Battle,” by Cornelius Ryan, about the Battle of Berlin. A Soviet soldier burst into a house looking for National Socialists to kill. The women inside cowered, but we’re sure they were about get raped (again). The soldier told them, in broken German, they didn’t have to worry about him, it was the second and third waves behind him that will rape them and loot their home.

[SMARTY]

Americans uniform are the face of the US wherever they are deployed... and I am always proud of them in what I see and read.

I work on a university campus and the MOST courteous and decent kids here are ROTC.

[cld51860]

“I work on a university campus and the MOST courteous and decent kids here are ROTC.”

I believe that!