Re: militarist

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---Scottie Bowman <bowman@mail.indigo.ie> wrote:

> 	But another thing.  Those same men of my
acquaintance who came 
> 	through combat all looked on `dedicated pacifists'
with a gentle 
> 	contempt.  Not so much because of their principles
but because, 
> 	having missed the most terrible but also most
intense, most 
> 	ineffable experience that life offers, they had
been left only 
> 	half-men.
> 
> 	ALL of us who missed that lesson are half-men
compared with 
> 	those who have had their priorities clarified by
living minute 
> 	to minute with the possibility, or likelihood, of
immediate 
> 	dissolution.
 
> 	Scottie B.

Since Henry David Thoreau is only a "half-men" do you
think it would be alright to just call him David
Thoreau?
Hitler then,
must have been 
not only a "men" 
but must have been a big "MEN".
So we must call him Adolf Von Hitler as a sign of our
admiration.

-Uriel.
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