"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: Is it easier now?
From: "Tarver Engineering"
Date: 2/26/04 12:13 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Did military discipline become looser and more liberal since WWI?. Is
military life easier now than it was then?

Do you mean compared to when the Oklahoma National Guard (45th Infantry)
liberated Dachau?



"Liberated" ? As I remember it there was no German resistance whatever.
All the
Germans had left and they just walked in without a shot being fired.
Hardly the
equivalent of landing on Omaha beach was it?. (sheesh)

Omaha Beach? You mean where the 29th Inf Div, another NG outfit, was serving
as half of the spearhead? You know, the guys who suffered such horrndous
casualties in that first wave, such that they located that D-Day Memorial in
Bedford, VA? Then again, you could maybe really be thinking about the Guard
artillerymen and tankers who fought their way back down the PI, and the
survivors of which were among those undergoing the Bataan Death March...you
know, during the time you were still a wet-behind-the-ears high schooler,
right? Would they be the same Guardsmen you so recently libeled as being
worthless during WWII?

Brooks




Arthur Kramer