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To: Ispy4u
I would gladly be killed conducting myself honorably than to discredit myself and my country and live.

If you are ever in a firefight, we will arrange to put that on your tombstone. Me?
I prefer the words from a real warrior: You are not here to die for your country! You are here to see that the other sumabitch dies for his country! (or ideology or religion or whatever.)

105 posted on 12/09/2003 6:43:50 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: Publius6961
Mine are the words of a real warrior.

General MacArthur's Thayer Award Speech -- Duty, Honor, Country (1962)

No human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this [Thayer Award]. Coming from a profession I have served so long and a people I have loved so well, it fills me with an emotion I cannot express. But this award is not intended primarily to honor a personality, but to symbolize a great moral code-a code of conduct and chivalry of those who guard this beloved land of culture and ancient descent. For all hours and for all time, it is an expression of the ethics of the American soldier. That I should be integrated in this way with so noble an ideal arouses a sense of pride, and yet of humility, which will be with me always.

Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ....

excerpted-General MacArthur's Thayer Award Speech

109 posted on 12/09/2003 6:50:58 AM PST by Ispy4u
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