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malthaussen

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1. In George MacDonald Fraser's memoir of WWII

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2014, 10:32 AM

Dec 2014

He relates how they celebrated VE Day in Burma: shooting starving Japanese making suicide charges across a strip of road his section was securing. We tend to forget that things are a little different for the men and women on the ground, from the politicians making their fatuous statements.

-- Mal

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"Then why the fuck am I still here" [View all] kpete Dec 2014 OP

In George MacDonald Fraser's memoir of WWII malthaussen Dec 2014 #1

Do you know what would happen if we closed all of our foreign military bases? Kalidurga Dec 2014 #2

+1 Victor_c3 Dec 2014 #4

" there would be several months of RW outrage." Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #7

I don't think it's a relevant factor Kalidurga Dec 2014 #9

Oh, I'll play nichomachus Dec 2014 #11

That and more Kalidurga Dec 2014 #12

He should ask the military personnel who are still in Japan malaise Dec 2014 #3

And those troops still yuiyoshida Dec 2014 #6

Those are considered pretty good duty stations helpmetohelpyou Dec 2014 #10

We never had any intention of leaving Afghanistan OR Iraq. Atman Dec 2014 #5

He doesn't understand chess Doctor_J Dec 2014 #8

He should send this to VP Biden who has been saying they'll be out by the end of 2014 hughee99 Dec 2014 #13