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To: struwwelpeter
Ninty years old, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Guerillas offered to let him leave the school, but he refused and said: 'I started my life here, and I will end it here!' Died a true teacher and front-line soldier.

As Marshal Konev once asked his generals, before the start of the Vestul Offensive: there are two kinds of men, the first wishes to die of old age in bed, surrounded by his friends and relatives. The second wants to die in battle. Which are you?

There is such a profession, as the defense of the Rodina.

10 posted on 10/13/2004 9:49:56 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6

And then the Great Marshal Konev of the Soviet Union sent his troops out to clear German Mine fields by running through them uncleared.


18 posted on 10/13/2004 2:06:18 PM PDT by Little Bill (John F'n Kerry is a self promoting scumbag!)
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