Blue Angels plane crashes

NoTrollz wrote:
B A R R Y wrote:


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:00:19 -0700, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost
wrote:

With military people dying everyday in hostile actions elsewhere in the
world, one death from an stunt flying aviator really doesn't make that
much difference.

What a truly stupid thing to say.


From what I've read he's the king of saying stupid things.

It's one death. Not any more important than the deaths of others dying
in the military.

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:29:01 -0700, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost
wrote:


It's one death. Not any more important than the deaths of others dying
in the military.

And no less, either.

B A R R Y writes:

And no less, either.

Someone dies somewhere every second. Do you mourn them all equally?

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Mxsmanic wrote:

B A R R Y writes:


And no less, either.


Someone dies somewhere every second. Do you mourn them all equally?


No kidding. There are about 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
There are about 55,490,538 deaths per year, and over twice as many births
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe

B A R R Y wrote:

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:29:01 -0700, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost
wrote:


It's one death. Not any more important than the deaths of others dying
in the military.


And no less, either.

We don't see pictures of the military deaths in Iraq on the news every
times someone is killed.

Mike Hunt writes:

We don't see pictures of the military deaths in Iraq on the news every
times someone is killed.

Perhaps that is why there have been so many military deaths in Iraq. The
Vietnam War would have continued indefinitely without the media.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote ...
Mike Hunt writes:

We don't see pictures of the military deaths in Iraq on the news every
times someone is killed.

Perhaps that is why there have been so many military deaths in Iraq. The
Vietnam War would have continued indefinitely without the media.

With 50,000 plus in Viet Nam yet less than 4,000 in Iraq, I guess that means
ten more years.....


Deaths? I'll give you deaths. In the late Summer and Fall of 1914, the
French Army lost 700,000 men in a short few months. That's more than have
been killed in all of the US's services in 20th century wars....

How was the French media along about first snowfall?

Still " Audace, audace, toujours audace!"

As for US battles, on one afternoon, although counting both sides in an
internecine conflict, the bloodiest day in US history, Sharpsburg/Anteitam
Creek, 27,000, the majority within a few hundred yards of a sunken lane. D
Day was a piker, less than 3,000 in 24 hours, not many more than Pearl
Harbor.

TMO

TMOliver writes:

With 50,000 plus in Viet Nam yet less than 4,000 in Iraq, I guess that means
ten more years.....

That is certainly a possibility.

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Dave Witmarsh writes:

No, it wouldn't have...the americans would have fled in the same
cowardly fashion media or no media.

The only cowardice was in refusing to admit that Vietnam was a mistake for so
long in the first place. A lot of Americans died as a result.

The usa will never become a major world player until it learns
its place.

I'm not sure which USA you have in mind, but the USA I know is already the
number one player on the planet.

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Dave Witmarsh writes:

No, it wouldn't have...the americans would have fled in the same
cowardly fashion media or no media.

The only cowardice was in refusing to admit that Vietnam was a mistake for
so
long in the first place. A lot of Americans died as a result.

The usa will never become a major world player until it learns
its place.

I'm not sure which USA you have in mind, but the USA I know is already the
number one player on the planet.


I suppose that it depends on your definition of "number one player". To me,
it seems to be a Country which has spectacularly lost its way in the last
few years and which is now living on past glories. And its deficit has now
reached gynormous proportions.

JohnT