Honor to those who came forward

In message , ArtKramr
writes

Well said. And we must never forget that the rule all officers follow, is to
never explain and never complain,.

What do you mean by 'never explain', Art?

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

Subject: Honor to those who came forward
From: "M. J. Powell"
Date: 7/5/03 1:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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In message , ArtKramr
writes

Well said. And we must never forget that the rule all officers follow, is
to
never explain and never complain,.

What do you mean by 'never explain', Art?

Mike
--
M.J.Powell


Sorry. I refuse to explain what I mean by "never explain"

..
Arthur Kramer
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

In message , ArtKramr
writes
Subject: Honor to those who came forward
From: "M. J. Powell"
Date: 7/5/03 1:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id:

In message , ArtKramr
writes

Well said. And we must never forget that the rule all officers follow, is
to
never explain and never complain,.

What do you mean by 'never explain', Art?

Mike
--
M.J.Powell


Sorry. I refuse to explain what I mean by "never explain"

Hehe! Sorry I asked!

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

FWIW:

"Battle is a watershed even in the lives of those who survive it without
visible scars. Military training, the forging of the bonds of comradeship, and
the traumatic events of the battlefield itself are never entirely forgotten. By
some they are frequently and freshly remembered, and by others they are locked
away like an album of unpleasant photographs, and are viewed only with pain and
reluctance.
"Most ex-soldiers remember war with mixed feelings, aware that it has altered
the way they look at the world, conscious that they have faced the greatest
challenge of their lives, grateful for some elements of the experience and
profoundly moved by others. Few regard war as anything other than an evil, yet
at the same time they do not regret their own participation in it. The
majority feel that their experience of war links them to others who share it,
as firmly as it separates them from those who do not. 'The war, mon vieux,'
wrote Jacques Meyer, 'was our buried secred youth.' 'In the 1920s,' admitted
Charles Carrington, 'I used to catch myself despising men of my own age who had
not been in the trenches.'
"The flood of military memoirs and myriad of wartime anecdoes are only one side
of the equation: on the other is reticence. Sometimes a reluctance to talk
about 'their' war reflects not only veterans' desire to avoid rummaging amongst
unpleasant memories, or their feeling that an outsider cannot possibly
understand what they have to say: they are also reluctant to let someone else
into a world which belongs to a special group from their own generation. It
was their war and remains their memory, and is a currency not to be cheapened
by inflation."

--Richard Holmes, "Acts of War"

"We thought we had managed all right, kept the awful things out of our minds,
but, now that I am an old man they come out from where I hid them. Every
night."

--Patsy Adam-Smith, "The Anzacs"


Chris Mark