To: archy
The thing that strikes me is that it sounds like a letter a GI would write home to his father today....
18 posted on
01/26/2004 1:32:53 PM PST by
Renfield
To: Renfield; Ragtime Cowgirl
The thing that strikes me is that it sounds like a letter a GI would write home to his father today.... Indeed, though I'd suspect more likely that today's troops would have sent back a letter telling dad after the fact of a kinda sudden wedding. But would indeed be askiung for the socks....
I wonder what Tiberanius would have thought of Captain Kimbo Hampton? Maybe there's something to the Viking ideas about Valhalla, and the two of them are having a chat even now....
33 posted on
01/26/2004 2:41:58 PM PST by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: Renfield
"The thing that strikes me is that it sounds like a letter a GI would write home to his father today...."
And the socks would take about as long to get there too!
34 posted on
01/26/2004 2:45:10 PM PST by
TalBlack
("Tal, no song means anything without someone else...")
To: Renfield
The only thing about soldiering that has changed throughout the millenia is the equipment we carry.
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