Re: [HoE] Veteran's Day [ot]

[Michael <martin_etc@yahoo.com>]

Would you count the brave soldiers who fought against
the Nazis in World War II as killers? They fought to
liberate more than a continent from the clutches of a
group who are probably responsible directly for more
deaths than many other groups in recent history?

--- "Kociak a.k.a. Kitten" <kociak@usa.net> wrote:
> At 03:29 AM 11/11/99 -0800, Allan Seyberth wrote:
> >       WHAT IS A VETERAN?
> There is, unfortunately, one more answer
> Veteran is either a killer or a would be killer. 
> For one reason or another
> s/he participated in a war, which is, basically,
> about trying to kill the
> other guy (the bad guy, of course).  Obviously, s/he
> might have had quite a
> good reason, but there I still do have a problem of
> hero worship directed
> at killers.

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