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“I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting—its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers ... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
William Tecumseh Sherman

A graduate of West Point, a key leader during the Civil War, and leader of the US Army during the Indian Wars — holding this philosophy, Sherman is considered one of, if not the, first modern General.

Just before the Civil War he served as the superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy in Pineville, Louisiana — in that position he warned secessionist Southerners they could not win the war. During the Civil War, he rose from Regimental Commander, to Corps Commander, to Army Commander. Sherman oversaw the largest Confederate surrender of the war — in North Carolina, where General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered Confederate forces totaling over of 89,000 soldiers, less than two weeks after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, who had fought Sherman for so long during the war, served as a pall bearer at Sherman’s funeral. Johnston refused to wear a hat while performing this duty, saying if Sherman were serving as his pall bearer, he would not wear a hat. It was a bitterly cold, February day in New York City: Johnston caught a severe cold, and died of pneumonia a month later.
 
Likely nursing a brutal hangover, plus having seen too much horror. Hard to forgive his appalling treatment of Native Americans later on in his life, but perhaps between the PTSD, the penchant for drink, and his experience in wholesale slaughter, it was to be expected.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
I'm sure those who fought in Afghanistan must be having similar thoughts of being used for no real purpose. It was just a "test".
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I'm bemused, rather than offended, by the self-appointed experts among the Internet Generals and assorted Mainstream Media that keep trying to convince veterans of their theory regarding Afghanistan being either for no real purpose and/or a waste that accomplished nothing.

It's as though they're too young to remember 9/11 and the terrorist attacks in the immediate years before that: the original twin towers bombing, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, etc.

I wonder what they think got them their last 20 years of national security free of Caliphate terrorists flying hijacked airliners into office towers? Mass murder bombings in Madrid, London, embassies in Africa? Plots to murder the prime minister and bomb major Canadian cities with IEDs?

Diplomats? Pride parades? Socialists and Useful Idiots wailing about "Islamophobia"?
 
Rick said:
I'm bemused, rather than offended, by the self-appointed experts among the Internet Generals and assorted Mainstream Media that keep trying to convince veterans of their theory regarding Afghanistan being either for no real purpose and/or a waste that accomplished nothing.

It's as though they're too young to remember 9/11 and the terrorist attacks in the immediate years before that: the original twin towers bombing, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, etc.

I wonder what they think got them their last 20 years of national security free of Caliphate terrorists flying hijacked airliners into office towers? Mass murder bombings in Madrid, London, embassies in Africa? Plots to murder the prime minister and bomb major Canadian cities with IEDs?

Diplomats? Pride parades? Socialists and Useful Idiots wailing about "Islamophobia"?
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I couldn’t agree more with your perspective. Salafism was bad, Al’queda was worse and ISIS even worse yet. These ideologies were bound to have left us fighting somewhere and I’m glad it wasn’t on our streets.
 
ULTRAMAR
MOÇAMBIQUE
ON MY WAY TO LAGO NIASSA
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MOÇAMBIQUE
Patrol speedboat shipped to Lake Niassa. For those who think patrol boats were easily placed on Lake Niassa, look at the image.
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Photo shared by Paulo Santos

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Mozambique does not sound like the nicest place.

Hot, hotter, hottest, humid, damp, squelching wet, place where you have to cut a road through the forest to haul a boat through the mud, people shooting at you.......

..... and even the TREES trying to get you!

Sounds like a wonderful adventure...... 20 years after you get out of it!
 
One of Canadian aviation success stories was the DHC Chipmunk, a sweet, trim little postwar creation that many people have fond associations with. Built in Canada, used by the RAF as a trainer for a very long time, sold to Portugal as well as others. One market DH tried to crack was Australia, but they were having none of it. Instead they went with a domestic product, the CAC Winjeel:

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Some aerobatic capability:

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Easy maintenance:

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Plenty of space for two friends plus a load of Fosters, a barbie, and a cooler fulla prawns:

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As much as I like the "Chippie", gotta say the Winjeel is not without its charms.
 
And some lovely art, until you read the title:

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Rifle Bullet, Adam Bunsch, 1929.

"Adam Bunsch, a Polish mystic, was born and died in Krakow (1896-1969). His life mirrored the Polish history of the first half of the 20th century. He participated in several wars, including the Soviet-Polish war of 1920. During the 2nd World War he was interned, escaped and reached England, where in 1943 he was promoted to lieutenant. Adam Bunsch painted portraits, created stained glass windows and paintings for the Polish Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa and St. Casimir in London. In 1945 he was demobilized and returned to Krakow. He taught at the State Industrial School in Krakow, from where he was dismissed in 1951 due to his problems with the new government. In 1967, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland by Polonia Restituta. It is said that his work had a strong influence on the young Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II."

Dunno about you lot, but I find this beautiful and enormously sad at the same time. What a way to depict that. Brings a tear to my eye.
 
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